A guide to the examination of the nose : with remarks on the diagnosis of diseases of the nasal cavities / by E. Cresswell Baber.

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1886
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    produced in a reflex manner by certain states of the nasal mucous membrane. The attention of observers has only recently been drawn to these phenomena, our knowledge of them is therefore still very imperfect. Cough is frequently due to nasal disease (John Mackenzie,* Seiler,t Hack]:). I. have several times observed that on touching the anterior extremity of one inferior turbinated body gently with a probe, a slight hacking cough was produced in patients who were not suffering from spontaneous cough, and I have recently had under my care a young- woman with a violent spasmodic cough, an attack of which could be immediately induced by touching the anterior part of either inferior turbinated body with the blunt end of a probe. The case was much im- proved, for a time at least, by a single application of the galvanic cautery to each inferior turbinated body. The conclusion, therefore, is that in cases of cough not accounted for by symptoms in the chest or throat, the nasal cavities should be subjected to a careful ex- amination. Asthma, as a result of nasal stenosis produced by polypi, was first described by Yoltolini in 1871. Since then attention has been gradually drawn to the sub- ject, and there are now many cases on record in which bronchial asthma has been ascribed to intra- nasal irritation (amongst numerous other cases, those of * American Journal of Medical Science, July, 1833, and New York Medical Record, May 3rd, 1884. t Archives of Laryngology, vol. iii., part 3, 1882. X Ueber eine operative Radical-Behandlung bestimmter Formen von Migrane, Asthma, Heufieber, etc. (On the Radical Treatment by operation of certain forms of Migraine, Asthma, Nay Fever, etc.), Wiesbaden, 1834.
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