Third Communication on Artificial Respiration in Stillborn Children. Mediastinal Emphysema and Pneumothorax in Connection with Tracheotomy. An Experimental Inquiry

Abstract

TilE occurrence of emphysema in the anterior medi- astinum, and pneumothorax, in the course of a series of experiments on artificial respiration in stillborn children, has seemed a matter of sufficient interest to justify a short communication on the subject.The series of experiments concerned twenty six subjects who had never breathed, and extended over a period of two and a half years, from January, 1878, to July,