We found that there was, in fact, no defect in the pleural lining of the President's chest.
He asked for chest tubes then to be placed in the pleural cavities.
When pleurisy exists, it is usually accompanied, according to Murchison, by purulent effusion into the pleural cavity.
Gas due to putrefaction collects under the pleural membrane, and can be expelled by pressure, and is not found in the air cells.
A similar band occurs in the same position on the dorsum of the eighth segment but the pleural region is devoid of such a band.
