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...chest may be considered to be a keg of two compartments (pleural cavities), each containing a lung. As each lung expands, it fills its compartment; as it contracts, it leaves a void. Tubercular lungs struggle to fill their pleural compartments; they get no opportunity to rest and heal the sores that tuberculosis germs are eating into their tissues. If one lung could cease its transference of oxygen from the air to the blood and carbon dioxide from the blood to the air, if it could get a rest, it might heal up. The operation of artificial pneumothorax does give...
...Columbus, Ohio, Railroad Switchman Harry C. Cramer had an x-ray made of his chest. The left side had been distressing him. When he breathed, it scarcely budged. The x-ray showed that fluid had accumulated in his left pleural cavity (the space in which the lung moves), had squeezed his left lung up until it barely moved under his shoulder blade, had forced his heart far out of normal over to the right side of his body. Surgeons at Columbus' New McKinley Hospital tapped his chest with a hollow, apirating needle, drew off some pus, a minor operation...
...since Kaisers, Hindenburgs, Ludendorffs, Von Tirpitzes and Bethmann-Hollwegs ceased to shake the Fatherland has Germany been so profoundly moved by an individual. The death of Hugo Stinnes in Berlin following an operation for gallstones which was complicated by pleural pneumonia, stirred the whole country to the complete exclusion of all else...
James Greenleaf Fuller '07 died at his home in Andover Thursday night of pleural pneumonia. He was taken ill with a cold last Saturday afternoon and went to his home. Pneumonia set in on Sunday and developed rapidly, resulting in his death...