Word: forlanini
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Karlsruhe, Germany, last week, how he squeezed tubercular pus out of the lungs of consumptive patients. They thronged to hear him. The operation? artificial pneumothorax?is by no means new. An Irish doctor, James Carson of Liverpool, figured it out theoretically in 1821; and during 1894-95 an Italian, Forlanini, worked out the full, practical method. It takes such beautiful advantage of the mechanics of the human torso that the German scientists listened well to Surgeon Sauerbruch, an especially dextrous technician...
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