Excerpt from The Journal of Laryngology, Rhinology, and Otology, 1904, Vol. 19: An Analytical Record of Current Literature Relating to the Throat, Nose, and Ear Judging by what can be gathered from the literature, the mucous glands do not play a very striking part in the history of the ordinary inflammatory conditions of the nasal mucosa. In the more acute cases they may enlarge and become much convoluted. In chronic cases they shrink and tend to disappear. Similarly in the pathogenesis of those inflammatory papillary hypertrophies of the inferior turbinal, which do not, in the writer's opinion, enter into the category of mucous polypi, the glands seem to take little part. Further evidence of the special influence of glandular changes on polypus-formation appears to be furnished by the following observations which were made: (i) The invariable presence of degeneration and dilatation of the glands of the mucous membrane in the areas subjacent to and in the neighbourhood of mucous polypi. (2) The absence of oedema where the glands were active. (3) The presence of small isolated areas of markedly oedematous mucous membrane, associated with corresponding isolated patches of degenerated and dilated glands (fig. (4) The presence of glandular changes in the instances of polypus associated with accessory sinus suppuration and in those in which polypus was not so associated. In the sinus cases, however, cystic degeneration was more in evidence than simple degeneration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.