Tuwo2(rs of Facial Bones. 411 



A malignant tumour has grown into the orbit and projected 

 also from the left side of the nose. Described formerly as a 

 " polypus of the nose, projecting to the face." F. P. C. 2832. 



6. 511. Malignant Disease of the Frontal Bone and Orbit. 



— Plaster cast of the face of an adult, probably a woman, 

 illustrating the above. 



A tumour has protruded the right eye-ball and projects 

 on the forehead in the neighbourhood, extending beyond the 

 middle line as far as the corner of the left orbit. 



F. P. C. 2837. 



6. 512. Malignant Disease of the Frontal Bone and Orbit. 



— Plaster cast of part of the right side of a face, illustrating 

 the above. 



A large fungating tumour has pressed down the right eye- 

 ball, and has involved the right orbit and adjacent frontal bone. 



F. P. C. 2838. 



6. 513. Sarcomatous "Polypus" of Turbinate Bones and 

 Upper Jaw. — Part of a right half of the skull of a young man, 

 showing a large tumour growing into the nasal cavity and 

 antrum, and causing absorption of bone by its pressure — in 

 spirit. 



"Mr W., a tall young man of a delicate form and sickly com- 

 plexion, came to town in July 1813, to consult Mr J. Bell about a polypus 

 in his right nostril. He was a farmer in East Lothian. He was attacked 

 about eight months before with profuse bleeding from the nose, so pro- 

 fuse as to endanger life. Alarmed by this bleeding, he sent for assistance, 

 but the surgeon assured him on this, as on several other occasions, that it 

 was merely a bleeding from the nose, not connected with any other 

 disease. As the bleeding each time increased, he was, by the time of his 

 arrival in town, sickly, pale, and languid. He had that transparent 

 yellow hue, which indicates great weakness from hajmorrhage, and is most 

 noticed in the hemorrhage during pregnancy and childhood. 



" A large polypus could be felt occupying the left nostril. It in 

 some degree affected his voice. Although the danger of his disorder was 



