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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    Loss of smell and the taste of flavours are of fre- quent occurrence in diseases of the nose. They may- occur together or separately, in the latter case it is usually the sense of taste, rather than that of smell, which persists. A sensation of dryness in the nose is sometimes complained of, and is chiefly noticed in the atrophic form, of catarrh leading to ozasna. This symptom is more commonly referred to the naso-pharynx than to the nasal cavities proper. We all know it in the first stage of acute nasal catarrh, and it is frequently met with in chronic naso-pharyngitis. Feeling of pain or weight in the nose.—Pain is not a very usual symptom of nasal disease; but a sen- sation of weight in the bridge of the nose is often com- plained of by patients, particularly by those suffering from thickeninsr of the mucous membrane of the middle turbinated body. Pain and weight are felt in the fore- head when the frontal sinuses participate in inflamma- tory affections of the nose, similar symptoms occur in the cheek when the maxillary antrum is involved. A sensation of something moving to and fro in the nose on respiration is occasionally met with. It may be produced by a mucous polypus (or other pedunculated growth), or by loose hypertrophied mucous membrane at the posterior extremities of the inferior turbinated bones. A case of the former kind recently under my care, will be mentioned on a subsequent page. (See Appendix, Case III.) Affections of the voice.—Thickness of articulation, undue nasal resonance, inability to pronounce certain consonants and impairment of the high notes of the singing voice, are often mentioned by patients and *