Memoir of the frontal sinus.

  • Stone, Thomas, M.D.
Date:
1831
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    ON THE FRONTAL SINUS* By THOMAS STONE, M. D. From, the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, No. XXVII. In this memoir I propose communicating to the Society the general results of my observations concerning the mode of for- mation, average extent, and peculiarities, which characterize the frontal sinuses in the human cranium; and when we consider the influence which their development has over the configura- tion, not only of the cranial, but also of the facial bones, we shall attach due interest to every investigation into their history. With the existence of these sinuses the older anatomists, at least those who immediately succeeded Galen, were not unac- quainted, for they were described by Columbus, and Laurentius points them out as demanding especially the consideration of the operating surgeon. It need scarcely be observed, that Vesalius, Albinus, Paaw, Winslow, Cheselden, Monro, and other dis- tinguished anatomists, have likewise described them: but with reference to their origin, they state only, in general terms, that they arise from the diploe having, where they exist, become ex*. * Read before the Royal Medical Society, March 1831. C