Sir William Osler, known as "the father of modern medicine", appreciated the death and disability caused by pneumonia, describing it as the "captain of the men of death" in 1918, as it had overtaken tuberculosis as one of the leading causes of death in this time.
Sir William Osler, poznat kao "otac moderne medicine," proučavao je smrti i tjelesna oštećenja uzrokovana pneumonijom, opisujući ju kao "predvodnika vojske smrti", godine 1918., kad je kao jedan od vodećih uzroka smrti toga vremena, pneumonija pretekla tuberkulozu.