Surgery of the Lung

Sir William McEwen, f.r.s., Regius Professor of Surgery, Glasgow Universit}7, has, in his Cavendish lecture on some points in the surgery of the lung, published in the British Medical Journal, dated 7th July, 1906, drawn attention to several important details, and has given some very useful hints as to the surgical treatment and management of cases. For the benefit of those readers who may not have perused his lecture, I shall, in the first instance, refer briefly to some of the principal points :? 1. The admission of air to the pleura and its results has been, and, according to some authors, is still considered the greatest barrier to the surgery of the lung. An excellent surgeon and experimentalist states in a recent