A treatise on nasal suppuration, or suupurative diseases of the nose and its accessory sinuses / by Ludwig Grünwald.

  • Grünwald, L. (Ludwig), 1863-1927.
Date:
1900
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Credit: A treatise on nasal suppuration, or suupurative diseases of the nose and its accessory sinuses / by Ludwig Grünwald. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    infection it occurs but very rarely, and in hereditary syphilis localized foci of disease are nearly always to be found. The real proportion of general to local suppurations in the nose appears from Harke's report, in which only three cases of general suppurative rhinitis are recorded : two in connection with erysipelas and diphtheria, whilst the nature of the third was undetermined. More convincing still, however, than any theoretical con- siderations will be found a careful and systematic examination of individual cases. In pursuing this investigation, one must constantly bear in mind the fact that those parts of the nasal cavity which are accessible to rhinoscopy are merely to be con- sidered as the common duct or outlet of a number of cavities which are often separately diseased ; and a diagnosis of inde- pendent disease of the mucous membrane of this common duct is never justified till the smallest of the accessory cavities have been with certainty excluded. The great rarity and comparative unimportance of general nasal suppuration, as compared with localized, justifies the briefness of this notice.