. American practice of surgery ; a complete system of the science and art of surgery . mer is too strong for the latter,abscess formation will result. Or, if neither preponderates suflnciently, chronichyperplasia w^ill result. Treatment.—The quick subsidence of the inflammation is, of course, thedesideratum, and this should be promoted first of all by treating the local spotof infection. Local germicidal or cleansing sprays and applications for pharym 532 AMERICAN PRACTICE OF SURGERY. gitis or tonsillitis or rhinitis, incision and drainage of alveolar abscesses, suit-able treatment or extracti
. American practice of surgery ; a complete system of the science and art of surgery . mer is too strong for the latter,abscess formation will result. Or, if neither preponderates suflnciently, chronichyperplasia w^ill result. Treatment.—The quick subsidence of the inflammation is, of course, thedesideratum, and this should be promoted first of all by treating the local spotof infection. Local germicidal or cleansing sprays and applications for pharym 532 AMERICAN PRACTICE OF SURGERY. gitis or tonsillitis or rhinitis, incision and drainage of alveolar abscesses, suit-able treatment or extraction of carious teeth, the incision of furuncles, the suit-able treatment of eczemas and herpes, the removal of pediculi, are among themeasures which are to be used for this end. External applications at the site of the swelling are also usually bags or cold moist compresses, or ointments, such as ungt. Crede, , and ungt. plumbi iodidi, surely may make the patient more comfortable,and they probably tend to promote the subsidence of the inflammation. In the. Fig. 156.—Deep Dissection of the Same Specimen, Showing the Efferent Lymph Vessels of theFaucial Tonsil Entering the Tonsillar Lymph Gland. The posterior belly of the digastric muscle andthe whole of the stylo-hyoid muscle have been reflected downward. 1, Parotid gland; 2, stump of thestylo-hyoid muscle; 3, stump of the posterior belly of the digastric muscle; 4, tonsillar lymph gland;5, reflected sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle; 6, brachial plexus of nerves; 7, substerno-mastoid lymphglands; S, internal jugular vein; 9, omo-hyoid muscle; 10, stylo-h5oid muscle; 11, posterior belly of thedigastric muscle; 12, hypoglossal nerve; 13, efferent lymph vessel of the faucial muscle; 14, facialartery; 15, position of faucial tonsil. (Wood, in A77ier. Jour. Med. Sc, August, 1905.) use of external applications, however, one should avoid those agents whichunduly irritate the skin and prevent a proper appreciati
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