A manual of diseases of the nose and throat . Myles trocar and canula. Antrum. Transillumination of the antrum havingshown a darkness on one side, with secretion betweenthe middle turbinate and the outer wall, one is justified Fig. Myles canula and tube for washing out the antrum of Highmore. in washing out the antrum. This procedure is per-formed by first placing a pledget of cotton, moistenedwith a 10 per cent, solution of cocaine, beneath the in-ferior turbinate, where the trocar is shown in Fig. is allowed to remain there for ten minutes. Afterremoval, a Myles trochar and canula


A manual of diseases of the nose and throat . Myles trocar and canula. Antrum. Transillumination of the antrum havingshown a darkness on one side, with secretion betweenthe middle turbinate and the outer wall, one is justified Fig. Myles canula and tube for washing out the antrum of Highmore. in washing out the antrum. This procedure is per-formed by first placing a pledget of cotton, moistenedwith a 10 per cent, solution of cocaine, beneath the in-ferior turbinate, where the trocar is shown in Fig. is allowed to remain there for ten minutes. Afterremoval, a Myles trochar and canula (Fig. 53), havingbeen previously sterilized by boiling, is passed into theJ, nose, underneath the inferior turbinate, and at a dis-tance of one inch from the nostril; its point is directedupward and outward, and there pushed through theouter wall of the nasal cavity into the antrum. ACUTE SUPPURATIVE INFLAMMATION. 211 Fig. 55 illustrates the distance within the nose thatthe trochar is inserted, and Fig. 56, the trochar as ithas passed through the bony wall of the antrum, Fig. 55. A 4 i ^t^x • / JmBU mm J—.^ ___^= * Antero-posterior section of a head with trocar in position for puncturingthe antrum. (Authors specimen.) throu


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