A guide to the examination of the nose : with remarks on the diagnosis of diseases of the nasal cavities / by E. Cresswell Baber.

  • Baber, E. Cresswell.
Date:
1886
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Credit: A guide to the examination of the nose : with remarks on the diagnosis of diseases of the nasal cavities / by E. Cresswell Baber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The arteries of the nasal fossas require no special de- scription. They are derived from the ophthalmic, which supplies the roof and the ethmoidal and frontal sinuses, whilst the lower part of the nasal cavities is provided with branches from the internal maxillary. The veins terminate chiefly in the internal jugular, but afewof them communicate with the veins in the interior of the skull through the cribriform plate of the ethmoid. The lym- phatics join the retro-pharyngeal glands, (two small glands placed in front of the spine upon the recti capitis antici majores muscles) and others beneath the upper part of the sterno-mastoid.* Some also enter glands situated on the surface and in the substance of the parotid gland (Gurnow).\ The sensory nerves may be divided into those of special and those of general sensation. The olfactory, the special nerve of the sense of smell, is distributed to the olfactory portion of the nasal mucous membrane, as already mentioned. The nerves of general sensation are as follows: the nasal branch of the ophthalmic which supplies the upper and anterior part of the septum and the outer wall of the nasal fossa; the anterior dental branch of the superior maxillary which is distributed to the inferior meatus and inferior concha; the Vidian nerve and the upper anterior branches of Meckel's ganglion supplying the upper and back part of the septum and the superior turbinated bone; the naso-palatine nerve which ramifies on the middle of the septum j and lastly, the anterior palatine nerve which supplies the middle and lower spongy bones. All these branches are derived * B. Fraenkei, Ziemsscn's Cyclopccdia, London, 1876, vol. iv., p. 126. t Gulstonian Lectures on the Lymphatic System and its Diseases. The Lancet, 1879, vol. i., p. 833.