Politzer's text-book of the diseases of the ear and adjacent organs : for students and practitioners / translated by Oscar Dodd ; edited by Sir William Dalby.

  • Politzer, Adam, 1835-1920.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Politzer's text-book of the diseases of the ear and adjacent organs : for students and practitioners / translated by Oscar Dodd ; edited by Sir William Dalby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which a long movable wire is inserted, the point of which has received a coating of nitrate of silver in the form of a ball. The small ball, which during introduction into the nose is hidden in the catheter, is pushed out when the point of the catheter has arrived at the region of the ostium tubse, the neighbourhood of which is cauterized by slightly shifting the catheter backwards, forwards, upwards, and downwards. Before the instru- ment is taken out the point of the wire must again be withdrawn into the catheter. The treatment of the almost in- curable ozsena has for its object the removal of the stagnating secretion as frequently as possible, and thereby obviating the disagreeable fetor. The antiseptic cleansing of the nose with Weber's nasal douche is not sufficient in all cases to thoroughly remove the masses of mucus and crusts, it being frequently necessary to syringe them out with a large syringe provided with a flexible rubber tube rounded on the end, and fenestrated on the side. The rubber tube is deeply inserted into the nose, and through turning the syringe the naso-pharynx is washed out on all sides, the crusts loosened and removed without pro- ducing the pressure which is done by Weber's nasal douche. The nose must be washed out daily and often for years, sometimes even it must be con- tinued through the whole of life. As a fluid for washing out the nose, weak salt solutions are sometimes used, sometimes the antiseptic solutions already described for the nasal douche. Löwenberg recommends the use of a weak sublimate solution (1 in 10,000), followed by the insufflation of boric acid. E. J. Moore irrigates daily with 1 to 2 quarts of sulphur water, later adding sea-salt or pot. chlorate, following with an irrigation of disinfecting solution, which is varied occasionally, and lastly insufflating tannin or citric acid in the powdered form (Eevue mens. Fig. 288.