[The moisture-releasing function of the lungs in patients with respiratory organ tuberculosis]

Results are submitted of study into the moisture-releasing function of the lungs in healthy persons and patients presenting with various forms of pulmonary tuberculosis It has been ascertained that moisture-releasing function is changeable and dynamic and depends upon a particular clinical form of tuberculosis as well as on the location, and phase in the course of the process. A correlation was found between moisture releasing and position being taken up by the body.