Transactions of the British Laryngological and Rhinological Association. ..., Band 1

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Seite 84 - I do not think that diseaseor injury affectingthe infant in utero can be a very frequent or potent cause for damage to the septum. Observation and evidence is entirely against this assumption. All the highest authorities say they have never seen a case. Zuckerkandl and Welker say that deflections are never found before the seventh or fourth year respectively. There is an almost complete consensus of opinion that they are never congenital. Of course fractures in utero and displacements from great...
Seite 55 - President, in the Chair. The Minutes of the last General Meeting were read and confirmed. The following Annual Report of the Council was then read : — ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.
Seite 82 - ... to deny that if one nostril be blocked up, from whatever cause, that the air in that nostril is rarefied by the inspiratory act, and if rarefied the walls of that box are subjected to a pressure exactly in proportion to the amount of rarefication. For illustration, let the rarefication be equal to a fall of an inch in the column of mercury in the manometer. Well, the total weight of the atmosphere equals about 29 inches of mercury at sea level, and exerts a pressure of something like 15 pounds...
Seite 84 - Watson does not yet recognize that deflections of the septum are common and consequently cannot be over burdened with knowledge on the subject. (3) Syphilis. Trelat asserts that many cases are of syphilitic origin. Syphilis, I should say, can only claim to occupy a very secondary (no joke intended) position as a cause of deflections. In so far as its influence is to soften and ulcerate the septum, and block up the nose, I say yes, but no more. To syphilis I believe that spurs, ridges and exostoses...

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