George W. Norris

XLIV. Serial Frozen Sections of the Thorax from a Case of Aneurism of the Aortic Arch

Twenty, or possibly even ten, years ago there would have been little or no justification for presenting this paper before such a gathering as the present one. However, the gradual extension of laryngologic activities_ into the regions adjacent to the nose and throat have so widened our field of interest that we feel that no apology is called for in presenting this case to you. So frequently do men in our special line of work introduce instruments intp the thorax, and so well is the normal an~tomy of this region known, that it occurred to us that a graphic presentation of a case in which the usual relations are badly distorted by disease might be Qf interest and profit. . We will present first a very brief abstract of the patients history. (The full history of this case can be. found in the Transactions of the Association of American Physicians for 1917.) He was in the. Pennsylvania Hospital twice, once in the service of Dr. J. Norman Henry, and once in the service of Dr. Arthur Newlin. . W.F., negro, aged fifty years, stevedore by occupation. Fifteen years previous to his death he had had a double infection, Neisserian and luetic. Two years before his death