SOME RHINOLOGIC OBSERVATIONS
- 8 November 1924
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 83 (19) , 1487-1490
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1924.02660190019005
Abstract
In 1908, I1began observations on clinical manifestations which I thought were produced by disturbances of the nasal (sphenopalatine, or Meckel's) ganglion. Until recently these were mostly observations of painful phenomena that could be more or less correlated; i. e., there were recognizable pathologic changes in the ganglion district, with clinical phenomena that could be argued were secondary to them. Within the last three years, however, I and others have made some observations which do not fit into these categories, some of which have been reported, to wit: the control by cocainization of the nasal ganglion of: (1) external cricoidynia; (2) lower jaw toothache; (3) glossodynia; (4) earache in cases of eustachian tube and middle ear lesions; (5) earache secondary to cancer of the larynx; (6) the pain of laryngeal tuberculosis; (7) the pain of herpes of the shoulder; (8) relief of spasm of the esophagus (not reported); (9)Keywords
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