COLLAPSED LUNGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 671, 24 May 1929, Page 9

COLLAPSED LUNGS

NEW TREATMENT FOR T.B. INJECTION OF FLUID GOLD LONDON, May 14. A f. a meeting at the National Consumption Hospital wonderful advances in the 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 Rolleston, Physician-in-Ordinary 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 h needle and pumping air into the pleural cavity, and also the injecting of Dr. H. Mollgaard’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 disease could now be relieved. The lungs could be rested by artificially collapsing them, or by - surgical methods, learned during the war in the treatmpnt of lung wounds. A Harley Street specialist, in an interview, said that many clerks were working in offices with both lungs collapsed, which sterilised the subject, prevented infection and arrested the disease. Both lungs were not entirely collapsed in a bilateral tuberculosis patient, who was capable of doing light work after six weeks. A good treatment, which, however, was expensive, consisted of the intrainjection of fluid salts of gold, fc® said.