Diseases of the nose / By Clinton Wagner.

  • Clinton Wagner
Date:
1884
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Credit: Diseases of the nose / By Clinton Wagner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    scattered over its surface. A microscopic examination showed a multitude of small cells, distinctly nucleated, mostly of an oval shape, and with here and there a few spindle-shaped ones, with long processes ; fibrous tissue appears sparingly. The cells were mostly ad- hering together without intervening substance. Fat- cells occur in abundance, some of which are partly filled with cell-growths. The following is taken from Dr. Delavan's report of my case to the New York Path. Society: Case 2. Dermoid Tumor of the Soft Palate. —Patient aged twenty, Irish, single, domestic. Pre- vious history good. No heredity. Stated that two weeks before operation she first noticed something wrong with the throat, and the trouble had grown rapidly worse. On examination, patient is a well de- veloped healthy girl, with no signs whatever of any diathesis ; mouth, tongue, soft palate (anteriorly) ton- sils and pharynx normal, with the exception of a slight amount of pharyngeal catarrh, and the follow- ing extraordinary aprjearance : Upon the left side of the pharynx is a foreign body, which hangs downward, from behind the velum a distance of seven-eighths of an inch and extends from near the median ]ine toward the left, nearly to the lateral wall of the pharynx. The surface of this body is pale, and no blood vessels are apparent upon it, in which it offers a striking con- trast with the neighboring parts. The body is freely movable, and flattened in its antero-posterior diameter to such an extent, that, while touching the posterior wall of the pharynx it does not project anteriorly be- yond the middle of the tonsil. Rhinoscopic examina- tion demonstrates clearly that the body is a tumor, springing by a pedicle from the soft palate. Its attach- ment corresponds with a space located one-fourth of