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.