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Last week Dr. Peet prescribed the method of administering this: "The subject is seated and an attendant holds the head tilted backward about 45°. This is the usual position for a nasal examination. A speculum is introduced into the nostril and under direct vision the spray tip is inserted upward along the septum until definitely past the middle turbinate. If it impinges on the roof of the nose it is slightly withdrawn. The bulb is squeezed the number of times required to introduce ice. of solution. This amount completely covers the olfactory area. A similar procedure is then carried...
...Griffin was alone in the fields, his little pack across his shoulder. It was a clear night, warm and silent, and the full moon the cynosure of all, and like the delicate, powdered nape of a woman it seemed to radiate an evening perfume, enticing the eye, cloying the nostril...
...patient made a remarkably good convalescence, went back to her family, capably took care of the house and children, gained weight and strength. Some paralysis and dullness of sensation remained on her left side; her face was lopsided. She could hear with only one ear, smell with only one nostril. Nevertheless, her friends noted no mental deterioration or personality change. She read constantly. Her sense of distance and perspective seemed unaffected...
...more persistent nosebleed will usually yield, if the patient half reclines, keeps still, has cold cloths applied to his forehead. A wad of gauze may also be stuffed into the bleeding nostril...
Success in the pelvis led to Elliott treat-ment of other body orifices with other shapes of rubber bags. Dr. James Malcolm MacKellar, assistant chief surgeon of Englewood, N. J. Hospital, treats sinusitis that way. He inserts a rubber sack the diameter of a lead pencil through each nostril to the top side of the soft palate. Each tube contains a partition which allows a steady flow of hot water. Sinus pains speedily cease as the water circulates. With another kind of Elliott rubber bag, Drs. John Henry Morrissey and Leo L. Michel of Manhattan, and a thousand others...