Artificial pneumothorax in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis

Dixon, William M.

doi:10.1016/s0041-3879(57)80067-1

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“…Riviere confirmed this judgment ten years later in the "British Journal of Tuberculosis" [32]. Other British doctors expressed an overall positive opinion on the treatment [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47], which was also applied to children [48]. Its level of popularization is also demonstrated by the fact that one of the important episodes in the novel "The Citadel" (1937) by the Scottish writer Archibald Joseph Cronin concerns precisely the description of an artificial pneumothorax operation.…”

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A Physical Cure for Tuberculosis: Carlo Forlanini and the Invention of Therapeutic Pneumothorax

Mazzarello

2020

Applied Sciences

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Carlo Forlanini (1847–1918), a medical doctor professor at the universities of Turin and Pavia, was the inventor of artificial pneumothorax, a method that allowed a first significant victory in the long war of medicine against pulmonary tuberculosis. The article outlines a portrait of this important clinician and focuses on the therapeutic innovation he introduced for the treatment of this infectious disease.

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