Show I I b I 4 I H I I l l TALKS B l a I L Cutting a Bone Out of the Nose Pose I I On One can learn a lot by reading a aI j I hundred letters a day For instance I it has always been our notion that i when a patient survived an operation I for say appendicitis paid his ae accounting accounting ac ac- counting and left the hospital a little pale and bent but smiling that his life thenceforward was one continual round of health Not so Our correspondence correspondence correspondence corre corre- has taught us differently About 30 per cent of such op operations rations we conclude leave some after trouble which the surgeon never hears anything anything anything any any- thing about Thousands of victims of hyper- hyper chronic nasal catarrh have a bone cut out of the nose to relieve obstruction to breathing or or r other other other oth oth- er symptom The nose and throat specialist specialist specialist removes some turbinate bone out of the nose with as little compunction compunction compunction com com- as the conductor feels in punching your ticket The results are always or nearly always per cent satisfactory satisfactory to to the surgeon The patient patient patient pa pa- tient survives breathes freely once more pays his score and departs cured cared carrying away away the curious bone in a bottle to show his friends From the letters Jetters pouring in to this department from widely scattered places we conclude that t the e cutting out of a turbinate body or any portion of bone from the nose is just the beginning begin begin- begin g n ning ning ng of trouble The great relief is isI short lived in many cases The original original inal trouble remains or becomes worse I In the course of months Why Because Because Because Be Be- cause the original causes are still active And And why again Because the theno no nose e and throat specialist failed to advise advise advise ad ad- vise the patient how to live in order to avoid those causes What are the original c causes uses of hypertrophy hypertrophy hypertrophy hy hy- or thickening of the turbinate turbin turbin- ate bon bones s or spongy bodies of the nose The same as the common causes of common so-called so catarrh 1 1 Overheating of apartments If the temperature of your living room work worl room bedroom church theatre or other place of occupancy is above 65 F. F it is overheated and you are preparing preparing preparing pre pre- paring yourself for colds or catarrhal disease 2 Ov Overdressing If you wear one single garment one pound of clothing not really reany needed for physical comfort you are Inviting respiratory disease acute or chronic 3 Overeating 4 Alcohol and tobacco 5 about exposure to infection by the popular vulgar pass- pass it along cold in the head That is practically the whole pathology pathology path path- of catarrh Chopping out some of the steam radiator radiator radiator ra ra- ra- ra of the nasal cavity wont won't cure it |