Anatomical researches on the deviations of the nasal septum : study of the difficulties which they occasion in operations, and especially in the catheterization of the eustachian tube, explanation of a new method for overcoming them / by B. Loewenberg.

  • Lœwenberg, B. (Benjamin), 1836-
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1883
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    the passage of the catheter. As for the mucous polypi, they let the beak of the instrument go by, taking their origi- nal position again as soon as it is passed. The obstacle therefore belongs only to the septum ; it forms there the protuberances or spurs which I have described in a previous article.'' I only considered them in that place in regard to their importance in the treatment of chronic coryza by the galvano-cautery, and I merely mentioned there the part they play in the catheterization of the Eustachian tube, giving notice that I should take up the subject in a later publication. The present article is intended to realize the execution of that project. Having recognized the seat, always identically the same, of these particular deformities of the septum, and the im- portant part they may play in catheterization, of which we shall treat farther on, I was desirous of elucidating the anatomical pathological-conditions under which these malfor- mations present themselves. In doing so I was asked to enlarge the field of study, and to consider various other points concerning the nasal septum. B.—Anatomical-pathological researches on the deviations of the nasal septum. My researches are based, on the one hand, on the dissec- tion of more than one hundred fresh heads; on the other, upon the study of skulls at the Orfila Museum of the Faculty of Medicine, Paris, and especially of the immense anthropological collection at the museum of the Jardin des Plantes. As the cartilaginous framework is more or less completely lacking in dry skulls, I have examined them particularly with regard to the conformation of the vomer and the perpendicular lamella of the ethmoid, while I have studied the cartilaginous septum from life and from fresh heads which I have dissected. Knowing that the reading of dry columns of figures alarms the most intrepid reader, I refrain from presenting a detailed table of the different categories of my observations, which ' B. Loewenberg : Contribution au traitement du coryza chronique simple. In Union midicaU, 28 Juillet, i88i.