A treatise on the diseases and surgical operations of the mouth, and parts adjacent; with notes of interesting cases, ancient and modern / Translated from the French of M. Jourdain.

  • Jourdain, M. (Anselme Louis Bernard Bréchillet), 1734-1816.
Date:
1849
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases and surgical operations of the mouth, and parts adjacent; with notes of interesting cases, ancient and modern / Translated from the French of M. Jourdain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have been careful to preserve the most profound silence. These are but as the lightning’s flash, which the wise will not gaze upon, lest their reason should be blinded. The flame of truth is far different from that momentary gleam, which departs on the instant, and leaves no trace of its ephemeral existence. CHAPTER FIRST. GENERAL REMARKS ON THE ANATOMY OF THE MAXILLARY SINUS. The Maxillary Sinus—called also the Antrum of Highmore —is a cavity in the orbital process [more correctly in the body] of the superior maxillary bone, under the orbit, fit is some- what triangular in shape, with its four angles] looking towards the malar bone, the spheno-maxillary fissure, the infra-orbital foramen, and below towards fangs of the dens sapientiæ. It has one, and sometimes more openings, which communicate with, the cavity of the nose, between the ^superior and inferior turbi- nated bones, immediately under the arch of the former, and are situated rather backward. The openings vary in form, and size, as well as in number. Sometimes each sinus will have but one, and again one of them will have two. Some have supposed that the maxillary sinus may be sound- ed in the same way as the nasal canal ; but an examination of the position of its opening, will show how different must be the procedure in the two cases. The orifice of the sinus looks from above downwards; that of the nasal canal, lying below the in- ferior turbinated bone, looks from below upward. Besides, into the sinus there is, in the natural state, but the one mode of access from the nose ; whereas, the nasal canal may be entered either by its orifice above mentioned, or through the lachrymal ^Called by later anatomists the middle turbinated bone, and so styled hereafter in this translation. 4