Abstract
The use of artificial pneumothorax in the treatment of tuberculosis has received much attention in the last few years. At present there are many institutions which do not make use of this valuable remedy in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. This is apparently due in part to the belief of many physicians that it is not applicable to patients who have an infection in both lungs. Furthermore, as most of the patients who have pulmonary tuberculosis have a lesion in both lungs, this reason would seem plausible to a certain extent. If a patient is not doing well, however, and if both lungs are involved, the one more than the other, the physician must resort to radical measures. Some time previous to the writing of this article, a patient at the state sanatorium, in whom the disease was far advanced in both lungs, left us, after being told that we
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