Notes on a case of nasal caries, complicated with meningitis, successfully treated by means of the surgical drill : read before the American Laryngological Association at the First National Medical Congress, 1888 / by William Chapman Jarvis.

  • Jarvis, William Chapman.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Notes on a case of nasal caries, complicated with meningitis, successfully treated by means of the surgical drill : read before the American Laryngological Association at the First National Medical Congress, 1888 / by William Chapman Jarvis. 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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    various forms of deflected septa in a finished and satisfactory manner.^ I shall, however, briefly remind you that this motor, introduced by me, known as the C and C, already enjoys an excellent reputation, in regard to its utility, for the purpose I have named, and that, too, in the hands of specialists, who had previously employed entirely different instruments of this kind. My electromotive force is now exclusively derived from the Gibson storage cell, which a somewhat extended experience has induced me to view as the most pow- erful, reliable, and in the long run, the cheapest de- vice obtainable for combined, cautery, illuminating, and motor purposes. The antiseptic tubular nasal drills, devised by me to cut away osseous septal spurs and distortions of the vomer will be found serviceable for the enu- cleation of the necrotic or carious centres in tertiary disease, and particularly the antiseptic syphon drill, which, by washing away the detritus resulting from the cutting, insures a perfectly clear field before the advancing drill. Finally, thanking you for your kind attention, I shall close, expressing the hope that you v.dll give this radical method a careful trial, in which event I am confident that you will become convinced of its unquestionable applicability for all forms of syphilitic disease of the osseous structures of the nose. 25 EJast Thirty-first Street. ^ A Novel System of Operating for the Correction of the Deflected Septum, Medical Record, April 9, 1887.
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