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Medical Members' Monthly Meeting, November 15, 1935

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The Medical Members' Monthly Meeting was held in the Reid-Knox Hall on November 15, 1935. About forty members were present and Dr. Rowden was in the chair.

The following cases were discussed:—

Dr. BUSH: 1. A case of stenosis of the bronchns due to silicosis. The patient, a man aged 61 years, had a history of dyspnoea for two years. At the time of examination he was bed-ridden and very ill. There was retraction of the anterior aspect of the chest with recession of the intercostal spaces on both sides. The percussion note over the whole of the right lung, posteriorly, was impaired, and no breath sounds could be heard in this lung. The left lung was hyper-resonant and obviously emphysematous. There was no cardiae abnormality and its position was normal. The radiograph showed complete opacity of the right half of the chest below the fourth rib. At the autopsy the right lung was found to be collapsed. The upper lobe was obliterated by fibrocaseous pleuristy. In the hilum a solid silicitic mass, about the size of a golf ball occluded the lumen of the right bronchus. Throughout the lungs were solated nodules of silicitic tissue.