Nasal polypus with neuralgia, hay fever, & asthma in relation to ethmoiditis / by Edward Woakes.

  • Woakes, Edward, 1837-1912.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Nasal polypus with neuralgia, hay fever, & asthma in relation to ethmoiditis / by Edward Woakes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTORY The unsatisfactory state of our knowledge of the patho- logical relations and the conditions of development of Nasal Polypus has for some years occupied the attention of the author, as, doubtless, it must have done with many others. The natural interest of the subject is emphasised by the fact of the frequent occurrence of the disease. Single or multiple polypi, more or less easy of removal, come with a continual repetition under the notice of the surgeon; and in most instances the affection constantly recurs within a longer or shorter period after operation. Thus two ques- tions naturally suggest themselves for consideration—What are the morbid conditions antecedent to its development? and what are those persistent factors of the disease which may elucidate its recurrence ? Finding no satisfactory answer to these questions to be obtainable from existing sources, the studies of the author became more and more identified with the task of investi- gatmg these matters, and with the endeavour in particular to discover at least such a solution of them as might be of practical value from the point of view of effective treatment Abundant as were the facilities for the observation of this class of cases, afforded in the out-patient departments of two hospitals where examples were of almost daily occur-