A text-book of diseases of the nose and throat (1904)
Kyle, David Braden, 1863-1916 · Philadelphia ; New York ; London : W.B. Saunders · leaf 129
EASES OF THE NOSE AND THROAT. is practically little or no alteration in the nasal mucous membrane,and yet a frightful and persistent odor is present, the source of thesame is, in the majority of the cases, from one or more of the acces-sory sinuses. The odor and the atrophic inflammatory change… … Fig. 48.—Concave nasal floor (after Cryer). The flat palatal arch causes the nasal floorto be concave instead of flat, as it otherwise would be. Here secretions collect and crustsform, causing ulceration; or else the secretion runs posteriorly instead of draining for-ward, and thus sets up a…
