RT @JohnRNeeleman: #Mann2024 Apparently the "fashionable " operation artificial pneumothorax was not sheer quackery but represented progres…
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#Mann2024 Apparently the "fashionable " operation artificial pneumothorax was not sheer quackery but represented progress in treatment of TB and thoracic surgery. https://t.co/gV5uWDrbMp
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@rodrigMD in the late 19th C, doctors also used to induce artificial pneumothorax in TB patients to let the lungs "rest" which makes me *cringe* considering at that time, we'd really only just figured out germ theory... 😬 https://t.co/uvLsxXYcce
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RT @paimadhu: Today's history lesson: The treatment of tuberculosis laid the foundations of modern thoracic surgery. Many chest hospitals…