FUNGUS. 
— that a alg fungus fhoots a from the oo 
furface .of the latter membrane.. "Whenever there, is 
peed or -exfoliatir i 
fungou 
in this cae anc 
morbid part ea. 
away be tumour, | which is growing clofel: 
ny he fhould be on his guard againit the 
pee ne of a ne ngus. ‘his remark fhould be remem- 
ered, after taking away a with a cutting inftru 
ment, A rations for cancerous difeafes, - appear- 
a fungus is the principal fears A of every 
informed practitioner, ae in be tholding the ren _ 
ant, ie granu ulations, recognizes the recurrence of th 
fatal diftem 
ore. eee into the confideration of i be 2 3y ee 
Bie ce. generally confitts in attempt- 
the mot part, the fooner fuch en- 
fo inetimes with setting a os with cau 
anaes wit lig In y times, 
tery was much id for this purpole and it pala 
ie be not altogether abandoned in France even in our own 
times ; but, by the general confent of ail relpeéable prac- 
ttioners, hot 3 irons have long been difufed i in the practice of 
furgery 1 d 
| Fungus i di Antrum.—Anatomy crea = that the 
antrum is ac ani cavity, fituated in upper jaw- 
bone, between a lower part of the orbit and ie roof of the 
mouth, having an aperture, by which it communicates with 
the in fi de of the nofe, and lined with a eee 
of the Schneiderian membrane 
_ Fungous rie “ the trum are amongft ae mo 
terrible to w an eae is fubjeQ. The dreadful 
i aa Cie mifchief which a tumour of this 
e tee d in the month 
mber, 1790, without any relief being obtained. 
"Towards the end of February, 1791, the cheek of the fame 
fide was affected with fwelling and pain. 
fy 
rt ti 
afterwards, a foft eminence appeared: above tlie tube- 
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Fs 
rofity of the cheek-bone, and, as. it increafed ES enh the pa- 
tient was determ{ned to try to get we the el-Dieu on 
of t : is ai = whole 
a ‘to the ¢ om anterior 
opening. | of the alve ae ee from - which 
the teeth d gia ee being. d ed below the 
level of the remaining teeth, rendered maftication extremely 
difficult. | From advance of 
‘the patient little mee ae a. cure was: pe agate 
With 
a view-of palliati need the cheek, compreffes, 
meuitened. with the tio cae lichargysi acetati, were ap- 
gore the firft fortnight, the felling over the cheek- 
one guly. alan a trivial augmentation ; but the 
fungus. increafed with great rapidity. It ae towards 
ack part of t ftrils, depreffed the arch of the 
a ate, and deformed the or fo me that it could sagas 
be diftinguifhed from the check. The pains became mo 
BF 
and more aggravated, at Jaft, deprived. the oat 
of her fleep. Toward the end of the firft mont at por- 
tion of the d paffed out of the. right nof- 
tril returned into t e. 
jected into the mouth, partly a agile but the fwelling 
n the tuberolity of the cheek-bone co erably increafed 
ntirely crete in the 
the ua 
tion on oi ce at the top is tumour, and gave 
toa putrid and very irritating fanie The pains now ex- 
tended towards the ear, frei rich flowed a quantity of 
ra 
feetid, blackith pus. .The ulcer dart a deep excavation 
in the cheek, which, in lefs than ten days, was entirely 
deftroyed. the 
patient died in 
weeks afcer her e years from 
co diffection, the mufcles 
yellow cellular mafs. The Heian maffeter, an 
poral mufcles were in part royed, as it is faid, by the. 
corrofive action of the ne éifcharge > which even made 
an impreffion on the finger e ligaments which con- 
ne€ted the lower jaw to the temporal bone were deftroyed, 
and the pus paffed through an opeiing from this articula- 
tion into the meatus ae ane aus. The right por- 
palatine arch, an ee-fourths of the potterior 
alveolar = were O. of the conf aie of cartilage. The 
exte of the orbit was deftroyed by the fungus. 
The ecules of the maxillary bone was diflocated, and, 
in part, deftroyed. The articulation of the cheek-bone 
with the temporal bone was fo nearly erp a ace 
eans of n lam 
ep and iopctis ; he linge 
loathfomenefs, rh ee and . 
th nt or cure. 
On the contrary, it ntinually 
vorfe, and to g on the fatal-termination ets happened 
in the inftance above relat in ings, every 
furgeon who values his own " profeffional pared or the 
life 
