DISEASE OF THE LUNGS

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2219, 28 May 1929, Page 4

DISEASE OF THE LUNGS

FLUID GOLD INJECTION

CHANGES IN TREATMENT

At a meeting at tho National Consumption Hospital in (London, ""underfill advances in tlie treatment of tuberculosis were mentioned, including the injection of a gold solution and the. artificial collapsing of the lungs in order to rest them. Sir Humphrey Rolle.ston, Plivlhcian in Ordinary to tlifo King, presiding, directed attention to. the change in the methods -of treatment, the most outstanding of which were the collapsing of one. or both) lungs hv inserting a needle and pumping ail into tho pleural cavity, and also the injecting of Dr H. Alollgaard’s sanocrysin, a. preparation of gold, which, | in experiments, had proved the means of arresting and, curing tuberculosis in animals. Surgery showed that every symptom of several types of chest diisease could now be relieved. The lungs could he rested by artificially collapsing them, or by surgical methods, learned; during the ivar in thel treatment of lung wounds A Harley Street specialist, in an interview, said that many clerks ivere working in offices with both lungs collapsed, Avhich sterilised the subject, prevented infection, and arrested, the idisenise. Both lungs were not entirely collapsed in a bitaleral tuberculosis patient, avlio was capable ,of doing light- work after six weeks. A good treatment, which, however, Avas expensive, consisted of the infra venal injection of fluid salts of gold, he said.