“…The majority of references are German. Herxheimer (1903) published an extensive collection of cases. Pollak (1914), in a review of idiopathic amyloid deposition in the upper air-passages, listed its characteristics-multiple lesions in the organ involved; involvement of contiguous tissues; waxy appearance of the tumours; absence of pain, lymph-node involvement, and ulceration of overlying mucous membrane.…”