DISEASE OF LUNGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20263, 24 May 1929, Page 11

DISEASE OF LUNGS.

FLUID GOLD INJECTION.

CHANGES IN TREATMENT.

LONDON. May 31. At a meeting at the National Consumption Hospital wonderful advances lit the treatment, of tuberculosis were mentioned, including the injection of a gold solution and the artificial collapsing of the lungs in order to rest thorn.

Sir Humphrey liolleston, Phy'sician-in-Oidinary to the 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 by inserting a needle and pumping air into the pleural cavity, and also the i:n> jecting of Dr. H. Mollgaard's sanocrysin, a preparation of gold, which, in experiments, had proved' the means of arresting and curing tuborcuiosis in animals. Surgery showed that every symptom of several, types of chest disease could now bo relieved. " . „ The lungs could be rested by artificially collapsing them, or by surgical method!!,, learned during the war in the treatment of lung wounds. . . A Harley Street specialist, in an interview, said that many clerks were working in offices with both iungs collapsed, which sterilised the subject, prevented infection »nd arrested the disease. Both Junes were not entirely collapsed in a bilateral tuberculosis patient, who was capable of doing light work after si\ '"'.Wood treatment, which, however, was expensive, consisted of the lntravenal in;jection of fluid salts of gold, ho said.