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WITH A REPORT OF A CASE IN MAN

GEORGE L. BIRNBAUM, M.D.; POL N. CORYLLOS, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1936;57(3):610-629.

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The treatment of lobar pneumonia, both experimental and clinical, with artificial pneumothorax has lately been revived with enthusiasm. The present studies were undertaken to see whether we could corroborate the success reported with the use of pneumothorax in the treatment of experimental lobar pneumonia in the dog.

EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE

Healthy dogs weighing from 8 to 12 Kg. were used.

Pneumococcus.

—The method first devised by Coryllos and Birnbaum¹ was used. From 20 to 30 cc. of an eighteen to twenty-two hour broth culture of Pneumococcus type I, II or III was centrifugated, and the sediment was suspended in 1 cc. of the supernatant broth. The suspension was then sprayed by gentle air pressure through a 2 mm. brass tube over the mouth of the bronchus of the lower lobe. The bronchoscope was used to locate the bronchus. In some cases the sediment was suspended in liquefied 1.5 per cent . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Surgical Research, Cornell University Medical College. This work was aided by a gift from Mrs. John L. Given in support of surgical research.

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