And there is just as unlikely a way to hit the jackpot in taking artificial pneumothorax.

If that didn't work, they used artificial pneumothorax.

He was treated with artificial pneumothorax, which induced the therapeutic collapse of one lung.

In the 1880s, he devised an artificial pneumothorax for therapeutic treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.

The treatment for tuberculosis during this time was isolation (hence the sanatoria) and artificial pneumothorax or lung compression.

"Report on Artificial Pneumothorax" (Medical Research Council.

In 1922, Glen Lake Sanatorium doctors first adopted and performed a surgical procedure known as artificial pneumothorax, which collapsed the lung affected by pulmonary tuberculosis.

"Artificial Pneumothorax in Acute Tuberculous Pneumonia, Acute Pulmonary Abscess and Pulmonary Hemorrhage," Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatalogical Association, 1921.

In artificial pneumothorax they shove a hollow needle between your ribs so that the end is between rib wall and lung wall, then pump the space in between full of air; this compresses the lung like a squeezed sponge.