. The principles and practice of modern surgery. x,it must be extracted through the mouth with curved forceps. After theoperation, the nostril should be plugged to restrain bleeding. 2. The hydatid polypus is a rare species, consisting of a number ofthin vesicles filled with a watery fluid, and attached by a peduncle. Thevesicles burst upon the slightest pressure, and their reproduction may beprevented by touching the peduncle frequently with a hair-pencil dippedin butter of antimony. 3. The carcinomatous polypus is nothing more than a scirrhous tumorin the nose. It may be known by its occurri
. The principles and practice of modern surgery. x,it must be extracted through the mouth with curved forceps. After theoperation, the nostril should be plugged to restrain bleeding. 2. The hydatid polypus is a rare species, consisting of a number ofthin vesicles filled with a watery fluid, and attached by a peduncle. Thevesicles burst upon the slightest pressure, and their reproduction may beprevented by touching the peduncle frequently with a hair-pencil dippedin butter of antimony. 3. The carcinomatous polypus is nothing more than a scirrhous tumorin the nose. It may be known by its occurring to elderly persons—bythe cancerous cachexia, the hardness of the tumor, and lancinating pain. 4. The fungoid polypus IB a soft red tumor, growing with great rapid-ity, frequently bleeding, and pursuing the ordinary course of fungushaematodes. This, like the last, admits only of palliative treatment. VI. Chronic Inflammation, and tumefaction of the Schneiderian mem-brane, produces a constant feeling of weight and stuffing, as from a bad 31*. 366 DISEASES OF THE ANTRUM. cold in the head, and more or less discharge, which is very apt to befetid. It is very common in young persons of scrofulous constitutions,and if neglected may lead to a very obstinate ozsena. It is to be treatedby applying one or two leeches to the inside of the nostrils, once or twicea week;—^by keeping the bowels open with mild purgatives, and occa-sional doses of hyd. c. creta; and by administering sarsaparilla withalkalis, F. 56, 57. Sometimes, in young children, the membrane swellsinto little red fleshy eminences, which may be touched with nitrate ofsilver, but must not be mistaken for polypi, nor be meddled with by theforceps. VII. Oz^NA signifies an obstinate fetid discharge from one or bothnostrils, depending on ulceration of the membrane, wdth or without dis-ease of the bones. It is most frequently a venereal affection, and w^henso, must be treated accordingly. But it sometimes occurs in scrofulou
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