[Brief history of the development of artificial pneumothorax]

Artificial pneumothorax (AP), was one kind of surgery for pulmonary tuberculosis which injects the air into the pleural cavity by needle tubes to form the artificial pneumothorax. It was applied in a clinic by the Italian physician Carlo Forlanini in 1894. In the subsequent 20 years, this therapy has not been paid attention to in medical circles until 1912 when it received recognition and gradually became the primary therapy of pulmonary tuberculosis in Europe and America. AP began to be used in pulmonary tuberculosis from 1928 to 1930 in Shanghai, China, then throughout the whole country. In the 1950s, with the appearance of streptomycin, streptomycin and rifampicin, AP gradually withdrew from the front-line of clinical practice and became a thing of the past.