Diseases of the nose and throat; a text-book for students and practitioners . re noted; the accessorycavities often being early invaded. Later, deep ulcerationsoccur and involve the surrounding parts by extension; thefeatures may be distorted, or the growth extend to the brainand speedily terminate life. Diagnosis.—The diagnosis is generally easy, owing to thedecidedly characteristic indications. Sarcoma presents a bluish-gray appearance, is soft and doughy to the probe or finger, and SARCOMATA. 127 bleeds easily, sometimes profusely, from ulcerative destructionof the blood-vessels. The tumor
Diseases of the nose and throat; a text-book for students and practitioners . re noted; the accessorycavities often being early invaded. Later, deep ulcerationsoccur and involve the surrounding parts by extension; thefeatures may be distorted, or the growth extend to the brainand speedily terminate life. Diagnosis.—The diagnosis is generally easy, owing to thedecidedly characteristic indications. Sarcoma presents a bluish-gray appearance, is soft and doughy to the probe or finger, and SARCOMATA. 127 bleeds easily, sometimes profusely, from ulcerative destructionof the blood-vessels. The tumor is always pedunculated, and,consequently, quite movable. Prognosis.—The prognosis should be guarded, althoughstatistics would seem to prove that when thoroughly removednearly 50 per cent recover; but in some of these cases the timeelapsing after the operation was too short to determine a cure. Treatment—Their total ablation is usually difficult and,indeed, often impossible. In the homoeopathic materia medica,however, there are remedies capable of relieving nearly all. Fig. 48.—Melanosaecoma of the Nose.* cases, and of curing some that seemed hopeless. Owing to therapid growth and difficulty in radically removing nasal sarco-mata, it is important to do all that can be done, in the way ofremedies, to control the growth as well as to alleviate the dis-tressing symptoms. Among adjuvants, nothing seems betterthan actual cleanliness of the affected parts, especially by theaid of sprays of eucalyptol, cosmolin, etc. A spray composedof hydrastin and cosmolin (as prepared by Buffington, of Wor-cester, Mass.) is not only very soothing and cleanly, but has adecidedly healing effect, on account of both its ingredients. Ifthe discharge be very offensive, a drop or two of carbolic acid or a * See the case reported by Dr. I. G. Shallcross, Hahnemannian Moiithly, January, 1892;also, Trans. Homoco. Med. Soc. Pa., 1891. 128 DISEASES OF THE NOSE AND THROAT. small quantity of thymol may be
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