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

  • Woakes, Edward.
Date:
1887
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    Neuralgia. Reflex skin rashes. Lachrymation, and injected conjunctivae. Paroxysmal sneezing. Paroxysmal cough. Hay fever. Nasal asthma. Paresis of Palate The structure and function of the mechanism by means of which reflex paresis is established, have a paramount bearing on the explanation of many of the phenomena contained in the group of symptoms of a reflex kind which owe their origin to ethmoiditis. For this reason chiefly, the author has placed paresis of the palate first for examination, —the plan pursued in the following remarks being to start with that symptom which is most objectively evident, and respecting the anatomical relations of which there can be no doubt, with the view of arriving at an intelligible idea of others more subjective in character and more obscure in anatomical detail. Since this symptom was described and figured by the author in a former work ^ it has attracted considerable interest and attention. The views to which expression was there given have undergone in the interval considerable expansion, mainly in consequence of the fact that the appearances then described as paresis of the palate have been since found to associate themselves almost constantly with the presence of necrosing ethmoiditis. So uniformly does this association of symptoms obtain that it has become 1 See Deafness, Giddiness, and Noises in the Head. Second Edition, 1880.