Fabricius Hildanus and Ruysch record instances of recovery in
which large pieces of lung have been cut off; and it is said that
with General Wolfe at Quebec there was another officer who was
shot through the thorax and who recovered after the removal of a
portion of the lung. In a letter to one of his medical friends
Roscius says that he succeeded in cutting off part of a
protruding, livid, and gangrenous lung, after a penetrating wound
of the chest, with a successful result. Hale reports a case of a
penetrating stab-wound in which a piece of lung was removed from
a man of twenty-five.
Tait claims that surgical treatment, as exemplified by Biondi's
experiment in removing portions of lung from animals, such as
dogs, sheep, cats, etc., is not practical; he adds that his
deductions are misleading, as the operation was done on healthy
tissue and in deep and narrow-chested animals. Excision of
diseased portions of the lung has been practised by Kronlein
(three cases), Ruggi of Bologna (two cases), Block, Milton,
Weinlechner; one of Kronlein's patients recovered and Milton's
survived four months, but the others promptly succumbed after the
operation. Tuffier is quoted as showing a patient, aged
twenty-nine, upon whom, for beginning tuberculosis, he had
performed pneumonectomy four years before.
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