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

Date:
1906
Catalogue details

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.

    209/606 (page 207)
    the antrum through the normal orifice. If the head is inclined downward, it flows forward through the nose into a pus-basin held below the chin. Any secretion which may be in the antrum is carried out in the ])roc- ess of syringing. Of course, the nose having been Fig. 50. Cross-section of head, showing healthy membrane lining right antrnm amt thickened polypoid membrane lining left antrum. The point of the trochar is shown piercing the membrane and free in the cavity. (Anthor’s specimen.) irrigated and inspected, to see that it is free from secre- tion, any discharge that falls into the basin must have come from the antrum. It occasionally happens that the first or second syringeful comes away clear or