Cardiac Anomalies Associated with Funnel Chest

" Congenital internal bending back of the sternum and ribs as the cause of difficulty in breathing. " My father showed me a boy seven years old at the house of a nobleQaan of Andlau, whose ensiform cartilage and other parts of the chest bone, together with the ribs, was bent back towards the internal parts, 8o that a great hollow appeared there. The diaphragm, he pointed out, deemed to contract those parts to a great extent. Right from his birth this boy had laboured under this serious physical drawback, breathing With difficulty and having an obnoxious cough. When we saw him he Was very seriously ill, so much so that suffocation seemed imminent,