Post-nasal catarrh and diseases of the nose causing deafness : being vol. I of the third edition of "Deafness, giddiness, and noises in the head."

  • Woakes, Edward.
Date:
1884
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    grown backwards into the naso-pharynx, where room was afforded for its expansion, and extending in all directions had formed a shield-shaped mass exactly covering the anterior wall of the space, and of course preventing nasal respiration. This patient was totally deaf. It is possible that some cases of tumours in this locality supposed to grow from the base of the skull, etc., would on more complete examina- tion be found to have an origin similar to that now de- scribed. Dislocation 0/the septum from the anterior maxillary spine occasionally happens, and gives rise to an unsightly de- formity, from the circumstance of the disengaged ridge of cartilage projecting from one or other meatus. But be- sides this it forms a positive obstruction both to respiration and the discharge of secretions. Allusion has already been made to one cause of this lesion, viz., the pressure of an exostosis. A strongly marked flexure of the septum has the same tendency to displace the anterior attachment of the cartilage. Blows on the nose, and violent manipula- tions of the organ in the efforts to free it of mucus, (Goodwillie) operate in a similar direction. The treatment is by no means difficult, and in more than one instance I have observed its spontaneous retraction on removal of the displacing outgrowth, rendering any special interference on its behalf unnecessary.
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