In the early stages of his pioneering work with artificial pneumothorax, Forlanini realised that effective collapse of tuberculous lungs was frequently prevented by the presence of adhesions between the visceral and parietal pleurae. He stated that in time the adhesions would often stretch sufficiently to allow a satisfactory collapse, but it was soon found that in many cases cavities remained ...

The year 1882 was an annus mirabilis in the history of pulmonary tuberculosis, for it saw not only the discovery of the tubercle bacillus by Robert Koch but also the introduction of artificial pneumothorax treatment by Carlo Forlanini. At that time Koch's spectacular achievements and the exaggerated expectations raised after the introduction of tuberculin tended to overshadow the significance o...

Heavy rainfall and typhoon oftentimes cause the collapse of hillslopes across mountain roads. Disastrous consequences of slope collapses necessitate the approach for predicting their occurrences. In practice, slope collapse prediction can be formulated as a deterministic classification problem with two class labels, namely “collapse” and “non-collapse”. Nevertheless, due to the criticality and ...

Relativistic quantum mechanics predicts that when the charge of a superheavy atomic nucleus surpasses a certain threshold, the resulting strong Coulomb field causes an unusual atomic collapse state; this state exhibits an electron wave function component that falls toward the nucleus, as well as a positron component that escapes to infinity. In graphene, where charge carriers behave as massless...

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...

In 1882, Forlanini12 of Milan proposed the induction of artificial pneumothorax in patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, and in 1894’s he published his experience with the first patients to be submitted to this form of therapy. In 1885 Cayley had reported the case of a tuberculous patient in whom he had induced pneuniothorax by open incision of the chest wall to control hemoptysis, an...