Association Meeting

SCHEINMANN showed a patient with carcinoma of the pharynx and larynx. The case had improved under treatment with pyoktanin and electrolysis. ROSENTHAL showed a patient who had a bleeding into the mouth proceeding from a wound of the left tonsil, and which was treated by chloride of iron. No cause for it could be found. SCHOETZ had observed such bleeding in patients suffering from cirrhosis of the liver. KATZENSTEIN had seen them in malignant tumours and phthisis. TREITEL had seen them in gouty patients. LEWIN showed (i) a patient with specific ulcers of the tongue, and defect of the epiglottis ; (2) a tracheotome used by him with good results for thirty years. B. FRAENKEL showed a specimen of specific tumour of the epiglottis. SCHOETZ did not believe that tracheotomes are practical instruments. P. HEYMANN showed a patient, twenty years old, with luxation of the right arytenoid cartilage. B. FRAENKEL had observed a similar case. LEWIN had observed a tumour between the vocal bands, which was formed by the cricoid cartilage. SCHEINMANN showed an incrusted foreign body removed from the nose. HEYMANN showed a specimen of bullous dilatation of the ductus naso-lacrymalis. CHOLEWA showed a nasal chisel. SCHEIER showed a specimen from a patient, thirty years old, who died after a fall from a height, thirteen days after the accident, which caused luxation of the vertebral column of the neck. On the posterior wall was a decubital ulcer, produced by pressure of the vertebrae. Michael.