Dissertation on the diseases of the maxillary sinus : read before the American Society of Dental Surgeons, at their third annual meeting, held in Boston, July 20, 1842 / by Chapin A. Harris.

  • Harris, Chapin A. (Chapin Aaron), 1806-1860.
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1843
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Credit: Dissertation on the diseases of the maxillary sinus : read before the American Society of Dental Surgeons, at their third annual meeting, held in Boston, July 20, 1842 / by Chapin A. Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    orange, he says the boy was only in a comatose state about forty- eight hours previously to his death.* Tumours occupying the maxillary sinus do not always originate in its lining membrane or periosteum. They sometimes arise from the pituitary membrane of the nose, frontal sinus, or eth- moidal cells, and after having found their way into this cavity, augment in size, until they produce the effects just described. Some suppose that the morbid productions found here, originate more frequently in the cells of the ethmoid bone, than in the lining membrane of this cavity ;f but I am disposed to believe that this opinion is not well founded, and that it has chiefly resulted from the great liability of most kinds of tumours of the maxillary sinus, to be reproduced after having been extirpated,—which is often attributable to the continuance of the cause that gave rise to them in the first instance, or to their imperfect removal. That they do however sometimes originate in the ethmoidal cells, there can be no question. It sometimes happens that tumours having their seat in the antrum, after having filled it, make their way into the nose, where they acquire a size equal to, or even greater than that to which they had previously attained here, thus dividing themselves, as it were, into two parts—one occupying this, and the other, one of the nasal cavities. Occurrences of this sort are not unfrequent, and they sometimes lead to the adoption of an incorrect opinion, with regard to the real seat of the disease. Thus, a polypus of the antrum is occasionally mistaken for one of the nose, and the *Vide Professor Reese's Appendix to Cooper's Surgical Dictionary, American edition of 1842, page 29. | Vide Traite des Maladies de la Bouch, t. i. p. 210, &c.