The Laryngoscope Volume 21

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1911 Excerpt: ... nares. A frontal tamponade is made with the rest of the gauze which lies between the two silk threads. After drawing the threads firmly over the gauze rolls they are firmly knotted. KELI.F.V ( GOLDSTEIX. ) 346 Some Features of Nasal Surgery. J. H. Egbert, Yale Med. Jour., June, 1910. In this interesting historical article Egbert says in part:--"Nothing is more rare or striking than a really perfect nose; in no feature is fineness of form more essential to the beauty of the human face. The nose of the Greek sculptors has rendered imperishable the Greek profile. According to the rules of art, the following are the conditions requisite to the beauty of this organ: The nose shall have the same length as the forehead, and present a slight depression at its root or apex. From its apex to its base it should follow a perfectly straight line and come exactly over the center of the upper lip. The bridge, bounded by parallel sides, should widen slightly in the center. The tip should be neither too thin nor too fleshy, and its lower outline neither narrow nor too wide. The lobes must be gracefully defined by a slight depression. Seen sideways, the lower part or base of the nose will have but a third of its total length. The septum should divide the nasal cavities into two equal parts, and the nostrils, rounding anteriorly, arched in the center and tapering posteriorly, should be exactly similar. "The Abbess HUdegarde and her forty nuns, appreciating how highly essential to attractiveness of face the nose really Is, delivered themselves from the odious attention of the barbarous Saracens by cutting off this feature. Amputation of the nose was performed by the ancients, particularly in Egypt and India, as the most degrading of punishments. Seztua Quintus inflicted this p...