It would, indeed, be.proof of the influence of nasal disease on asthma if surgical treatment could sometimes relieve the paroxysms. But in none of these cases has operation been so successful. In most cases the improvement that resulted, even as concerned the local condition, was only temporary and incomplete ; and in many cases the local condition for which the operation was performed recurred. Even in patients in whom there was definite relief of obstruction and in whom nasal breathing became free, the asthma was not influenced.At times the apparent hopelessness of asthma demands some action, and persons who have suffered from the disease will readily undergo any treatment that offers a prospect of relief. But, in my experience, the nose and throat should be left alone in asthma, except when the rhinologic condition itself demands attention.It is not to be expected from an operation on the nose that the asthma will be at all influenced.
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