Pleural Effusion in Artificial Pneumothorax : Its Incidence in Cases Treated from the Beginning in an Out-Patient Department *The article was originally accompanied by 11 large tables giving the findings of this study in full. At the request of the Editor the number of tables has been reduced in order to save space.
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cial pneumothorax demands consideration both for its good and evil effects. Some of its good effects are : the fixation of the mobile mediastinum thus affording better collapse, the closure of the basal cavity, the increase of interval between the fills by better retention of gas, and the initiation of better fibrosis by ' auto-tuberculin reaction None of these, of course, is an unmixed good, but even if we accept them as good effects, the obvious evil effects are much
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