On adenoid vegetations in the naso-pharynx

Hypertrophy of the Adenoid Tissue in the Naso-Pharynx *Read at the Indian Medical Congress, 1894.

By Surg.-Capt. F. O'Kinealy. i.m.s., Resident Surgeon, Medical College Hospital, Calcutta. itit; suDject of hypertrophy of the adenoid tissue in the naso-pharynx has been before the medical profession for many years. In this country it has recently been brought forward, notably in papers, in the Indian Medical Gazette for 1892 and 1893. And the comment has been made that in India this condition...

Vicissitude of Curetted Adenoid Vegetations

Weights of curetted adenoid were measured and were compared with both weights of tonsils and the rate of adenoidectomy among the tonsillectomized cases. This study included 603 patients whose adenoids were curetted during the 11-year period. 90% of patients were 2 to 9 years old. The rate of curetted adenoid vegetation among the tonsillectomized cases was 80% among patients from 1 to 6 years ol...

Practitioner's Handbook of Diseases of the Ear and Naso-Pharynx

The chapter on the complications of suppurative middle-ear disease, written by William Milligan, is particularly good, containing in small compass a very clear account of the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, especially operative treatment, of these affections. We note that the author highly values the Wilde incision in the treatment of mastoid periostitis when the periostitis is primary or se...

A Manual of Diseases of the Nose and Throat, Including the Nose, Naso-Pharynx, Pharynx, and Larynx

The Naso-Pharynx as Infection Carrier in Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis

and in the Rhine coal districts. He points out that school epidemics are unknown ; that second cases in the same house are uncommon ; that cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis which have been put into scarlatina or other wards on a wrong diagnosis do not give rise to further cases in these wards ; and that meningococci are not found in the noses of the other children in these wards. He concludes ...