. Transactions of the American Climatological and Clinical last winter, and whetherthis case was spontaneous or not it is difficult to sav. The phv^ician*at the hospital reported a patient on the medical side who had beenadmitted the night before. I saw her on the following dav, and foundthat she had a complete pneumothorax of the left side. Some 46 ozof fluid had been aspirated the evening before. She felt no discomfortwhatever; there was no dyspnoea and no elevation of temperatureRut there was a slight percussion splash, showing all of the fluidhad not been removed. She had at
. Transactions of the American Climatological and Clinical last winter, and whetherthis case was spontaneous or not it is difficult to sav. The phv^ician*at the hospital reported a patient on the medical side who had beenadmitted the night before. I saw her on the following dav, and foundthat she had a complete pneumothorax of the left side. Some 46 ozof fluid had been aspirated the evening before. She felt no discomfortwhatever; there was no dyspnoea and no elevation of temperatureRut there was a slight percussion splash, showing all of the fluidhad not been removed. She had at no time anv dvspncea She re-mained in bed for about three weeks. At the end of that time a smallgas bubble was shown in the lower axillary region bv the X-rav plate*and at the end of four weeks this had cleared up. It is interestingthat the pneumothorax had been entirely overcome in the course offour weeks and at no time gave any symptoms. Dr. Minor : I have had the privilege of seeing and watching thecase Dr. Lyman has described. I would only sav that at the time he. Face p. 172. CASK OF SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX 73 was sent to mc the X-ray no longer showed the existence of thepneumothorax, and that there were only slight signs of an inactivetuberculosis, and that the patient after a course of treatment reachedthe point where he was able to exercise freely, to play golf, andremained afebrile, and went home in excellent condition. This winter1 have had a similar case of spontaneous pneumothorax, only in thiscase there was no trace of tuberculosis to be found. The patient wasa young business man of Baltimore, who, though he had had nosymptoms, one day in the street felt a little faint, though he had atthat time none of the acute pain and shock so often seen. He paidno attention to this, but finally began to develop some pain and short-ness of breath, so that he consulted a physician. Pneumothorax in thiscase was of slight degree, was rapidly absorbed, and his lungs nowpresent a p
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