THE MEASUREMENT OF THE INTRAPLEURAL PRESSURE IN MAN AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE
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The intrapleural pressure is generally regarded as merely an observation made during the institution of artificial pneumothorax but since the elastic properties of the lung have been subjected to a very careful analysis, this measurement has graduated from an empirical observation to one of real physiological significance.
Abstract
The intrapleural pressure is generally regarded as merely an observation made during the course of pneumothorax therapy. It is true that on this continent scattered observations on the intrapleural pressure in various pathological conditions have bean made, but it does not seem to have bean realized that certain foreign investigators have subjected the elastic properties of the lung to a very careful analysis and that this measurement should have graduated from an empirical observation to something of real physiological significance. [...]