The more frequent diseases of the frontal sinuses : clinical lecture delivered at the post-graduate medical school, Chicago / by Casey A. Wood.

  • Wood, Casey A. (Casey Albert), 1856-1942.
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[1900?]
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    THE MORE FREQUENT DISEASES OF THE FRONTAL SINUSES. « CLINICAL LECTURE DELIVERED AT THE POST GRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL, CHICAGO. BY CASEY A. WOOD, M.D., Professor of Ophthalmology in the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School; Oph- thalmic Surgeon to the Passavant Memorial Hospital; Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine, etc., Chicago. Gentlemen,—It is very probable that inflammatory processes of the frontal sinuses are much more common than the practitioner usually imagines. For example, headache confined to the frontal region of one side is not infrequently due to frontal sinus disease, although it is commonly spoken of as neuralgic in character, and is confounded with the supra-orbital pain of nasal and ocular affec- tions, la grippe, etc. Even bilateral frontal headache may be due to acute disease of the sinuses, because, although commonly unilateral at first, both sides may be eventually diseased in consequence of in- fection of the second sinus through the opening that often join;s them. Failure on the part of many to recognize the role that in- flammatory infections of these frontal cavities play in the production of symptoms is, therefore, my excuse for discussing the whole sub- ject here. First of all let us examine this skull, so articulated and sawn that it plainly shows all the parts related to the frontal sinuses. These two plates, from Moldenhauer's Krankheiten der Nasen- holen, will also assist us in obtaining a proper idea of their anatomy. Fowler's description of these sinuses, as given in the Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences, is one of the best known to me. They are, says he, two irregular-shaped cavities which ex- tend upward and outward a variable distance between the two tables of the frontal bone, upon the vertical portion of its internal surface. They are situated one upon either side of the base of the nasal spine,