PEDIATRICS Vol. 17 No. 5 May 1956, pp. 802
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow P3Rs: Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when P3Rs are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow E-mail this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My File Cabinet
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via CrossRef
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by TOP, F. H.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by TOP, F. H.

Airborne Contagion and Air Hygine

FRAKLIN H. TOP M.D.

The transmission of infections affecting man has been the object of much thought, theory and conjecture for many centuries. Host to host transfer of infectious agents remained largely in the province of speculation until the "Golden Age of Bacteriology" and the succeeding era of discovery of viruses. In the immediate past half century the experimental method has added considerably to the proposition that certain agents pathogenic to man are transmitted by air.

Well's book is a scholarly treatise on a subject to which he has given earnest consideration for over 20 years, namely, the importance of droplets, droplet nuclei and dust in the spread of infection.