Cleft palate and adenoids. Treatment of simple fractures by operation. Diseases of joints. Operative treatment of Cancer. Acquired deformities. Antrectomy. Hernia, etc / W. Arbuthnot Lane.

  • Sir William Arbuthnot-Lane, 1st Baronet
Date:
[1900]
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Credit: Cleft palate and adenoids. Treatment of simple fractures by operation. Diseases of joints. Operative treatment of Cancer. Acquired deformities. Antrectomy. Hernia, etc / W. Arbuthnot Lane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    degree. Therefore the so-called nasal intonation does not develop as early as one would imagine in association with much loss of nasal inspiration. You see at once from an examination of Fig. 1, which represents a vertical transverse section through the nasal cavities and surrounding structures in the normal subject, that the calibre of the lower part of the nasal cavities, or of their respiratory section, if I may so describe it, is enormously encroached upon by any ascent of the hard palate above the normal Fig. 2 represents a transverse vertical section of the palate and alveolus, life size, of an adult with an imperfectly-developed naso-pliarynx. The model was made by Mr. Edgar Ashby. level, and that the air-transmitting capacity of the naso-pharynx varies inversely as the height of the palate. Also that the calibre of the entire nasal space is very much affected by the slightest variation in the interval between the septum and the struc¬ tures forming the outer wall of the space. You all know how exceedingly common are such cases of imperfect development of the nasal cavity of which Fig. 2 is an excellent example. It has probably often struck you that if we exclude diseases
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