Aneurysms in the Johns Hopkins Hospital

In 1921 Prof. René Leriche requested of Dr. W. S. Halsted some information as to the end-results of the ligation of large arteries at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Leriche was particularly interested in the occurrence of intermittent claudication and other evidences of anemia following arterial ligations. I had already been working on the compilation of data relative to our experience with aneurysms. With the aid of Dr. Halsted's secretary, Miss Mabel Reese, and one of Max Bröedel's pupils, Mrs. Schwartz, charts of all of our cases were rapidly completed in duplicate form. Leriche, in his article on "Resultats éloignés des Ligatures et des Résections artérielles,"1makes recognition of the copy which was sent to him, and has referred in his paper to some of our late results following the ligation and resection of arteries. Compilation of the following data relative to aneurysms was undertaken with the idea that I