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BEFORE entering upon the subject of my lecture I should like to express my best thanks to the Semon Lectureship Board for the honour of their invitation to me. The fact that once again this honour has been bestowed on a foreign Rhinologist instead of on one of the many eminent British confreres is a new proof how faithfully the Selection Committee follows the ideas of Sir Felix Semon, who was a very successful promoter of international scientific interchange. We are convinced that only a common devotion here to medical science can effectively bind people. To further this aim I have tried to pay my contribution by this study. Moreover, I should like to pay my respects to the holder of the Lectureship-to the University of London. There are special relations between this institution and our country, as among one of the founders and first senators there was a Swiss, whose name is not quite forgotten, Peter Marc Roget, the editor of the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. I have great pleasure, being at the present time Dean of the medical faculty, in conveying the greetings of the Alma Mater Turicensis. Motto : ". .. there is only one thing that can effectively bind people and that is a common devotion."-Consecratio Medici, by Harvey Cushing, to whose memory this paper is dedicated.

at 08:19:08, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of * During his illness the late John S. Fraser was very anxious that this rare observation should be published. We therefore give it in considerable detail.

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