Distension of the frontal sinus / by Charles Higgens.
- Higgens, Charles, 1846-1920
- Date:
- [1880]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Distension of the frontal sinus / by Charles Higgens. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![Eeprintedfrom Vol. XXV of * Gay’s Hospital BepOTts’] DISTENSION OF THE FRONTAL SINUS. By CHAELES HIQGENS. Case 1.^—George W—, set. 32, admitted July 10th, 1877. Twenty-five years ago suffered from abscess at inner canthus of right eye (lachrymal sac?). The abscess formed during re- covery from scarlet fever. Eighteen years ago, he received a blow on the forehead from a bar of iron, but was not much hurt. Two years later some pieces of diseased bone were removed from the inner angle of the orbit. Patient has been at sea for the last [sixteen years, as steward and cook. Has enjoyed fairly good health, but was never very robust. Has had typhoid fever and smallpox ; no venereal disease. Since the removal of bone, sixteen years ago, he has had no trouble about the orbit until eight months back. He then noticed a small lump at the inner angle of the orbit, which he attributed to cold taken during night watches. He noticed that the lump varied in size, being always much smaller in the morning, after a good nighPs rest, than at other times. Soon after the lump appeared he began to experience pain in the forehead, described as a kind of stretching and bearing down. The pain was constant, and has continued up to the present time. The swelling has gradually increased, and is still increasing, but varies in size at different times, being always much smaller in the morning, after rest, than in the evening, when he has been about all day. ' Reported in ‘ Guy’s Hosp. Rep.,’ ser. iii, vol. sxiii, 1878.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2239994x_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
