s growths were
supported in a sling attached to his night cap. He presented such a
hideous aspect that he was virtually ostracized from society The growth
had been in progress for twelve years, but during twenty-two months'
confinement in Revolutionary prisons the enlargement had been very
rapid. Fournier says that the most beautiful result followed the
operation which was considered quite hazardous.

Foreign bodies in the nose present phenomena as interesting as wounds
of this organ. Among the living objects which have been found in the
nose may be mentioned flies, maggots, worms, leeches, centipedes, and
even lizards. Zacutus Lusitanus tells of a person who died in two days
from the effects of a leech which was inadvertently introduced into the
nasal fossa, and there is a somewhat similar case of a military
pharmacist, a member of the French army in Spain, who drank some water
from a pitcher and exhibited, about a half hour afterward, a persistent
hemorrhage from the nose. Emaciation progressively continued, although
his appetite was normal. Three doctors, called in consultation,
prescribed bleeding, which, however, proved of no avail. Three weeks
afterward he carried in his nostril a tampon of lint, wet with an
astringent solution, and, on the next day, on blowing his nose, there
fell from the right nostril a body which he recognized as a leech.
Healey gives the history of four cases in which medicinal leeches were
removed from the mouth and posterior nares of persons who had, for some
days previously, been drinking turbid water. Sinclair mentions the
removal of a leech from the posterior nares.

In some regions, more particularly tropical ones, there are certain
flies that crawl into the nostrils of the inhabitants and deposit eggs,
in the cavities. The larvae develop and multiply with great rapidity,
and sometimes gain admission into the frontal sinus, causing intense
cephalalgia, and even death.

Dempster reports an instance of the lodgment of numerous live maggots
within the cavity of the nose, causing sloughing of the palate and
other complications. Nicholson mentions a case of ulceration and
abscess of the nostrils and face from which maggots were discharged.
Jarvis gives the history of a strange and repeated hemorrhage from the
nose and adjacent parts that was found to be due to maggots from the
ova of a fly, which had been deposited in the nose while the patient
was asleep. Tomlinson gives a case in which