This week, we talk about lung surgery. it starts with Carlo Fornanini adding gas into the chest cavity, then doctors removing pus from the chest, even removing ribs to do it. Then, Willliam Macewen figures out intubation, and other folks bring us modern mechanical ventilators.

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