Word: pneumothorax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lung from expanding and thereby exerting itself. This rest enables the lung to confine the invading germs of tuberculosis while the other lung, with no appreciable inconvenience, takes up a double burden for the rest of the patient's life. Thoracoplasty is not to be confused with artificial pneumothorax or with phrenicotomy, other efficient and less drastic methods of resting a tuberculous lung. In artificial pneumothorax a hollow needle is inserted between two ribs. Air is pumped into the pleural cavity of the affected side until pressure prevents the lung from expanding. Nor can a diseased lung expand when...
Sometimes a stab wound lets air into a pleural cavity. The air destroys the pleural vacuum which the lung requires and acts as a pneumatic cushion against which the lung can not expand. Such an accident is called pneumothorax...
...case of tuberculosis, pneumothorax may be a beneficial accident because it immobilizes the diseased lung, gives it a chance to rest and heal, and may enable the tuberculous invalid to attend his ordinary affairs. When doctors realized that good fact, they invented a procedure called artificial pneumothorax...
...Joannides, an expert in artificial pneumothorax, last week proceeded to show the attentive politicians how it was done. An attendant scrubbed the gaunt tuberculous woman's chest with alcohol. Dr. Joannides anesthetized a small area between two ribs. Then he took a jar of filtered air from a shelf. To the mouth of the jar was attached a soft rubber tube. To the other end of the tube Dr. Joannides fastened a large hollow needle. This he jabbed between the unflinching woman's ribs, kept it there while the air sighed from the jar into the vacuum around...
...robust Chicago politicians, led by Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly, departed, proud that they had supplied the money to enable Iroquois Memorial Hospital to inaugurate what they believed was the world's first pneumothorax clinic for the wholesale treatment of tuberculosis...