Word: pneumothorax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victim had not told the airline that he had been in a tubercular clinic and under treatment by pneumothorax (collapsed lung). His death was due to a simple law of physics: as atmospheric pressure decreased, the air in his chest cavity expanded to a volume that swiftly caused fatal complications...
Michael J. Brody '42, whose presence in Stillman Infirmary for the last week has caused considerable conjecture among Boston papers is suffering from spontaneous pneumothorax, according to Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene...