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

  • Woakes, Edward.
Date:
1887
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    suggested itself very slowly, and was not fully realised till the close of the year 1884, some months subsequent to the publication of the author's treatise on Post-Nasal Catarrh. At this time, therefore, the first of the queries, What are the antecedent states which lead up to the development of Nasal Polypus? seemed in a fair way of solution. The probable answer to the second query will, it is hoped, be equally apparent in the sequel. In the meantime he had occasion to remove portions of these tumours in order to diminish the obstruction to nasal respiration occasioned by their presence in the breathway of the nose. These were preserved, and ultimately sub- mitted to a competent and independent pathologist for microscopical examination, with the results described in a succeeding chapter. These may be to some extent antici- pated by remarking that they offer a complete explanation of all the foregoing clinically-observed phenomena. It will be conceded that the outcome of this long- continued study of the pathogenesis of polypous disease of the nose has been to place the subject in a very different aspect from that which it previously occupied. The author therefore felt justified in publishing as much of the subject as appeared to him to rest upon an indefeasible basis. This was done in the first instance in a paper read at the London Medical Society in March 1885, entitled On Necrosing Ethmoiditis: its relationship to Nasal Polypus, etc., and which was subsequently printed in the Lancet for July of the same year. Though some have objected to the views therein advanced, the facts have never, so far as the author knows, been contravened by any competent authority on diseases of the nose. As regards the associated symptoms of the disease, the author finds himself for the most part in accord with the