Today's Medical Oddity
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In the dark ages, I remember tuberculosis being treated by collapsing a lung. Same thinking - deprive the bacterium of O2 and it'll get better.
From 1912:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM191212261672607
From 1958:
https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0096-0217(16)30941-4/abstract
Pneumothorax was the first effective form of collapse therapy to be used widely. During the first 40 years of the present century, it attained world-wide acceptance, becoming at one time the standard and almost universally preferred method of pulmonary collapse. During recent years, its popularity has diminished to a marked degree especially in the United States; some large Tuberculosis Institutions having abandoned it completely. In this hospital, we do not use pneumothorax as a routine therapeutic procedure, our patients are treated on pneumoperitoneum and chemotherapy followed by major chest surgery. However we do feel that in some circumstances, no other measure is likely to be useful and the following case reports are presented with that object.
I shudder to think what the thinking of today's medical treatments will look like, half a century from now.
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I shudder to think what the thinking of today's medical treatments will look like, half a century from now.
Chemotherapy: you deliberately poison the patient to treat cancer?
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@George-K Getting back to the original post. For a non-medical person like me, what is happening there?
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@George-K Getting back to the original post. For a non-medical person like me, what is happening there?
@taiwan_girl said in Today's Medical Oddity:
For a non-medical person like me, what is happening there?
Play the video. He explains it all.
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@George-K Getting back to the original post. For a non-medical person like me, what is happening there?
@taiwan_girl said in Today's Medical Oddity:
For a non-medical person like me, what is happening there?
Bro ate cat and dog on toast.
