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.
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