The art of artificial pneumothorax.

The Art of Artificial Pneumothorax

A Study of Certain Factors Influencing Results of Artificial Pneumothorax Treatment

Material analysed For this purpose, out of our series of 3,657 patients in whom artificial pneumothorax has been tried, we have studied certain points in 781, that is, in all patients in whom artificial pneumothorax has been attempted in the period from 1st January, 1940 to 31st December, 1943, and who have completed their treatment in the institution and have been discharged. Of these 781 case...

Complications during Artificial Pneumothorax Therapy

cases without examining the patients radiographically, either before or after induction. Now that a great impetus is given to the problem of tuberculosis in this country there is every possibility of increasing the incidence of similar therapeutic adventures which are undoubtedly beset with positive danger. Hence a statistical study of the complications and dangers of pneumothorax therapy is ju...

Senior thesis on the artificial pneumothorax treatment of acute lobar pneumonia

Bolshevik Disease and Stalinist Terror: On the Historical Casuistry of Artificial Pneumothorax

From its initial development by Carlo Forlanini at the end of the nineteenth century until the advent of antibiotics in the 1940s, artificial pneumothorax was one of the most widely used treatments for pulmonary tuberculosis. However, there were strongly held reservations about this therapy because of its risks and side effects. In the Soviet Union under Stalin, such uncertainties became instru...