Post-nasal catarrh and diseases of the nose causing deafness : being vol. 1 of the third edition of Deafness, giddiness, and noises in the head / by Edward Woakes.

  • Woakes, Edward, 1837-1912.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Post-nasal catarrh and diseases of the nose causing deafness : being vol. 1 of the third edition of Deafness, giddiness, and noises in the head / by Edward Woakes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a fine galvano-cautery wire. Each method is effective and almost painless, but in either, speaking generally, several sittings are required, the amount of tissue destroyed at any one time being proportioned to the requirements of the case. In the meantime a detergent gargle of Permanganate of Potassa will facilitate the separation of the sloughs, after which recovery is rapid. Long continued management on the lines already indicated, may be required to prevent subsequent irruptions of the catarrhal proclivity. Chronic Atrophic Catarrh of the Nasd-pharynx ; or Pharyngitis Sicca. The third form of the disease, dry catarrh of the naso- pharynx, consists essentially of a sclerosed, thinned, or atrophic state of the mucous tissues of the affected region. Etiologically, it may be regarded as the outcome of the preceding hypertrophic stages of catarrh. But its advent is liable to great variations. Thus, while in some cases we may observe the patient pass through the various phases of acute cold, followed by hyperplastic developments, and ending in sclerosis, in a comparatively brief period; it is more common for these changes to occupy many months, or even years, in their successive evolution. In the worst type of the disease the subject is unable to afford any his- tory of the kind above indicated. He will be unable to recall any particularly violent attack of cold which proved the starting point of his trouble, but will say rather that he has never been free from annoyance in his nasal region,