A text-book of practical therapeutics . ounce (), may be sponged over thebody, or sulphuric acid may be added to water in the proportion of1 dram to the pint ( cc), and used in the same way as thealum solution. Formaldehyde solutions may also be used. Sulphuric acid is often given internally with advantage in thesecases of sweating. Reference should be made to the treatment of pulmonary tuber-culosis by artificial pneumothorax. This method is based on theview that the collapse and consequent rest of the lung will aid inarresting the process. It is applicable only in those ca
A text-book of practical therapeutics . ounce (), may be sponged over thebody, or sulphuric acid may be added to water in the proportion of1 dram to the pint ( cc), and used in the same way as thealum solution. Formaldehyde solutions may also be used. Sulphuric acid is often given internally with advantage in thesecases of sweating. Reference should be made to the treatment of pulmonary tuber-culosis by artificial pneumothorax. This method is based on theview that the collapse and consequent rest of the lung will aid inarresting the process. It is applicable only in those cases in which the TUBERCULOSIS 945 lesions are almost solely on one side, since it is necessary that the lungnot compressed shall compensate for the work of the collapsed lung,and that there shall not be pleural adhesions which cause the lungto adhere to the chest-wall. For these reasons both sides of thechest should be carefully studied by the aid of the :r-rays beforeinstituting the procedure, and if the x-rays reveal the position of. Fig. 142.—Robinsons apparatus for artificial pneumothorax. Two bottles of2000 cc. capacity are employed. One is stationary and filled with water containing2 drams of pyrogallic acid to take up any oxygen which may enter in conjunction withnitrogen. Nitrogen gas is then forced into stationary bottle (A), displacing the waterback to bottle B. At completion of this displacement the apparatus is ready foruse. On opening certain cocks the water in bottle B replaces the nitrogen in bottleA, gradually filling it. The difference in the water levels of the two bottles representsthe pressure under which the nitrogen is injected, the rapidity of its injection beingregulated by the size of the opening in any one of the cocks. When bottle B is fullthe maximum pressure is obtained, amounting to about 14 cc of water. As the waterlevels approach one another bottle B may be raised, thus maintaining the pressure untilmost of the nitrogen has been displaced, when
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