A plea for increased caution in the use of surgical collapse therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis.
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Not many years ago-within the lifetime of some of us-pulmonary tuberculosis was considered an almost hopeless disease. Patients were advised to “go out West and rough it,” and those who did recover did it in spite of this advice rather than because of it. Examples of the fatalistic attitude prevalent in those days are too well known to all of you to merit discussion at this time. In 1877, what we consider to be the most significant advance in therapy in the recent history of the disease-the systematized sanatorium rest treatment-was popularized in this country by Trudeau, a few years after having been introduced abroad by Brehmer and Dettweiler. Artificial pneumothorax, which had been suggested centuries before,7 was introduced in Milan by Forlanini and about 1900 began to be used in this country. Other means of collapse therapy were introduced in rapid succession.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Diseases of the chest
دوره 13 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1947