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tions (if indeed they may be said to h,ave any at all) on the general 

 physiological laws operating in all the tissue changes of the body. 

 What was once " morbid " is now natural. If the word is to be 

 retained by naturalists, it should have a strictly medical application 

 — the one originally designed for it by practical men. 



The correlation between the RuoiE and the interior 



OF THE NOSE. 



I have met with ten examples in which the left side of the nose 

 was smaller than the right and in which the same side of the hard 

 palate was also the smaller. Care must be taken to distinguish the 

 common variety of narrowing of the nose by a deflection of the 

 septum from the much rarer form or reduction of the chambers in 

 all directions. 



In six cases the right side of the nasal chamber was the larger 

 and a corx^esponding increase in size of the right half of the palate 

 was detected. 



But the association between palatal and nasal conditions is by no 

 means uniform and at the same time I cannot conclude that the 

 cases brought forward in evidence were coincidences. I have stud- 

 ies of individual cases in which not only was harmony present 

 between the proportions of the nose and the hard palate but between 

 these structures and the cranium as well. 



It may be said that, in a manner, the law of symmetry is not with- 

 out exemplifications in the harmonies of the arrangement of the 

 sides of the hard palate, with the nasal chambers and with the cor- 

 responding side of the head but that this exemplification is subject 

 to so many exceptions by the operation of minor disturbing factors 

 as to be rarely present. 



In examples of hyperostosis of the iuter-maxillery suture the in- 

 ferior turbinated bones are high and appai-entl}^ compressed. This 

 condition is often associated with imperfect devfclopment of the vomer 

 at the choana. The same peculiarity is found in high V-shaped 

 vaults. 



A well defined group of subjects exhibit intumescent states of the 

 membranes of the premaxillary portion of the nasal chamber, a 

 rounded nodule projecting from the floor of the vestibule, a prom- 

 inent anterior end of the inferior turbinated bone, and a tumid state 

 of the membrane covering the septum. While such pronounced 

 morbid appearances are seen in the front of the chamber the remain- 

 der of the nasal surface is perfectly healthy. Coincident with these 



