Abstract
To the Editor: —InThe Journal, April 16, 1921, page 1078, Dr. Frank Holyoke says that nowhere in medical literature has he seen any easy method for recovering with safety a rubber drainage tube lost in the pleural cavity. He then describes his method of recovering tubes by saying that the specific gravity of the tube is 0.98, and if the patient is placed on his sound side with the diseased side up and then the diseased pleural cavity is filled with physiologic sodium chlorid solution, the tube will float on top of the solution near the aperture and can be easily removed. If any surgeon has been so unfortunate—as I have—to lose a tube in draining the pleural cavity, I would not advise such a procedure. I did it once and almost lost my patient from asphyxia, and still did not get the tube. A safe and easy plan
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