A manual of diseases of the nose and throat / by Cornelius Godfrey Coakley.

Date:
1906
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A manual of diseases of the nose and throat / by Cornelius Godfrey Coakley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    sink or wash-bowl, bending slightly forward. The bottle is grasped with the left hand, and the nozzle of the tube, held between the thund) and forefinger of the right hand, is inserted into the right nostril sufficiently tight to prev'ent escape of fluid from the nostril. The bottle is then elevated until the fluid is noticed running Fig. 30. from the left nostril. If the mouth is kept open and the patient breathes through it, he will find no difficulty in allowing the fluid to run for some time through the right nostril, back into the nasopharynx, and out of the left nostril. He must be cautioned not to elevate the bottle too high, or the pressure of the fluid in the