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April
Publication year - 1958
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1958.tb86162.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , information retrieval , library science
seen other gentlemen operate on 10 more, making 160 operations on 85 persons. Innocuousness of the operation.?I have never seen the least permanent evil resulting from any operation, and only the slighest temporary difficulties, such as pain, slight dyspnoea, stricture, or cough, etc. This, I think, shows the innocuousness of the operation by means of the exploring trocar and suction pump, as suggested by Dr Wyman. Frequency of the operation.?One lady (case formerly reported) I tapped 9 times during 8? months ; commencing Avhen she was 4 J months pregnant, and in whom the orthopnoea was, several times, so great that death, I have no doubt, would have supervened within twenty-four hours, if the operation had not been performed. She is now tolerably well, but with a contracted chest, as is usual in chronic pleurisy. In striking contrast witli this case, as it regards the frequency of the operation, while resembling it in the number of times it was performed, was the