Allergy of the nose and paranasal sinuses. A monograph on the subject of allery as related to otolaryngology. by French K. Hansel, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology, Washington University School Of Medicine; Fellow of the Association for the Study of Allergy, the Association of Resident and Ex‐Resident Physicians of the Mayo Clinic; the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology. With 58 text illustrations an

XXX Allergy in Otolaryngology and its Relation to other Manifestations

“…Then following pertussis, asthma may appear for the first time. In a series of 200 cases of nasal allergy and asthma in children, we 3 have made an analysis of the relation of asthma to the acute infectious diseases. This data was available in only 13 3 of the cases.…”

LVII The Significance of the Nose in Allergic States

“…The customary practices of nose blowing are harmful in proportion to their frequency, the degree of intranasal positive pressure produced, and the amount of foreign substance forced under the turbinates and into the sinuses at the time of blowing. 4. "Allergy surgery" is nasal surgery aimed at the correction of intranasal deformities so as to simulate the normal arrangement; allowance for sufficient clearance for the turbinates, so that changes in temperature and humidity will not interfere with normal nasal function; adequate sinus ventilation and drainage where secretion has formerly accumulated; removal of polypoid membrane, when prolonged reaction has made its condition irreversible to normal; exenteration of ethmoid labyrinth in certain cases showing the more serious forms of allergy, such as bronchial asthma, allergic arthritis, etc., if there is evidence of chronic nasal disease.…”

Conservative treatment of sinusitis in children

“…This percentage justified continuing the policy of retaining these cases in the Army rather than returning them to civilian life. 4. After.…”