Goodpasture's disease

Correspondence to: Dr Alan D Salama, Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Transplantation, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA (e-mail: asalama@rics.bwh.harvard.edu) Goodpasture’s disease In 1919, Goodpasture was attempting to define the specific pathological features of influenza infection in diseased lungs, and reported the autopsy findings in two patients who had died at the height of the 1918–19 pandemic. The...