Professional paper

A Dubrovnik physician Armeno Baglivi and artificial pneumothorax

Stanko Dujmušić

Abstract

Some outstanding authors such as Piery-Rosheirn. Mistal, Lawrason, Brown etc. tried to assert that Baglivi had already known some effects of the curative pneumothorax and that he had been in Favour of such treatment. So, he would have been the forerunner of Carlo Forlanini. The author refutes this opinion on the base of Baglivi's original text as in Baglivi's works no support to such assertion is given.

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Hrčak ID:

188969

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/188969

Publication date:

25.3.1947.

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