. Annals of surgery. Hypernephroma of head of fibula Fig. Microphotograph of bone metastasis of hypernephroma. GANGRENE OF THE LUNG. 555 brownish, stinking fluid was removed. A blood count showed45,000 white blood-cells, with 79 per cent, polynuclears. The patient was transferred to Dr. George Woolseys , by Dr. Hitzrot: By aspiration, pus could be obtainedonly in the eighth interspace below the angle of the local anaesthesia, an incision was then made along the lineof the eighth rib, and three inches of the rib were resected,exposing a cavity containing stink
. Annals of surgery. Hypernephroma of head of fibula Fig. Microphotograph of bone metastasis of hypernephroma. GANGRENE OF THE LUNG. 555 brownish, stinking fluid was removed. A blood count showed45,000 white blood-cells, with 79 per cent, polynuclears. The patient was transferred to Dr. George Woolseys , by Dr. Hitzrot: By aspiration, pus could be obtainedonly in the eighth interspace below the angle of the local anaesthesia, an incision was then made along the lineof the eighth rib, and three inches of the rib were resected,exposing a cavity containing stinking pus and broken-down lungtissue, which came out of the chest opening in large pieces. Tworubber drainage tubes were inserted. Following the operation, the patients temperature rangedfrom 100° to 102°, falling to normal on the forty-second this time, the wound had discharged foul smelling detri-tus ; it ceased on the forty-fourth day, and now, seventy days afterthe operation, it had healed excepting for a slight sinus in theskin. The open-air
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