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Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie  (Continued from page 2183)In the general discussion, Tönnies of Würzburg emphasized the good results secured with puncture (sometimes with lavage) in infants and young children. He reported a series of sixty-one cases with three deaths (5 per cent). In some of the patients a later thoracotomy was required, which was then well borne. Schönbauer of Vienna displayed an apparatus recommended by Demel for the aspiration of the purulent effusion. It consists of two curved trocars, which, joined together to form a circle, are connected with a tube that leads to a bottle. The suction device has given good satisfaction. Heller of Leipzig performs rib resection in severe empyemas, under differential pressure, then closes the wound and drains by the Iselin method through a newly created puncture wound into a wine bottle. In eighty-one cases he had a mortality of 24 per cent.