Word: pus
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...most serious complications met in treating tuberculosis is what the doctors call empyema, i.e., the cavity between a lung and the chest wall fills with pus. Not long ago empyema was one of the commonest complications; nowadays, thanks to streptomycin and skillful surgery, it afflicts fewer than one-tenth of tuberculosis patients. But it is still true that nearly half of those it attacks do not recover...
Injected into the infected chest cavity of six patients, trypsin produced good results in four by dissolving the mass of pus and sterilizing the cavity. In two cases where trypsin failed, the empyema was of long standing and the cavity walls had become rigid. Roettig and Reiser recommended further trial for the promising technique...