Notes on a case of nasal caries, complicated with meningitis, successfully treated by means of the surgical drill : read before the American Laryngological Association at the First National Medical Congress, 1888 / by William Chapman Jarvis.

  • Jarvis, William Chapman.
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1888
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Credit: Notes on a case of nasal caries, complicated with meningitis, successfully treated by means of the surgical drill : read before the American Laryngological Association at the First National Medical Congress, 1888 / by William Chapman Jarvis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a - COMPLICATED WITH MENINGITIS, SUCCESSFULLY TREATED BY MEANS OF THE SURGICAL DRILL. (Read before the American Laryngological Association at the First National Medical Congress, 1888.) By WILLIAM CHAPMAN JARVIS, M.D., Professor of Laryngology and Diseases of the Nose and Throat in the New York University Medical College. OF the several reasons which have prompted the preparation of this paper, I shall only notice the most important, namely, the extreme rarity of the meningeal complication, announced in my title, as a result of syphilitic disease of the nose, the absolute uniqueness of my own case in regard to its course and termination as proved by medical literature, and, finally, the opportunity afforded to construct a precise and systematic plan for the suc- cessful treatment of similar cases and their numerous modifications. In regard to my statement concerning the rarity of the meningeal complication, it may be well to ex- plain, that a diligent search into the literature of the subject resulted in the discovery of but a single case, namely, the one reported by Trousseau, also referred to by Sir Morell Mackenzie in his work on the “Nose and Throat.” This instance, cited by Trousseau, was that of an English officer, “who had a sudden, terrible suffocative attack, caused by the presence in