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Excerpt from Archives of Clinical Surgery, Vol. 1: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to Surgery in All Its Special Departments; July, 1876 The 'tumor completely fills up the space behind the soft pal ate. The finger can be passed beneath it, so as to touch the posterior wall of the pharynx; but its upper border cannot be defined, the tumor extending upwards so as to completely fill the posterior nasal cavity. Attempts to pass a long probe or soft bougie through the nose were not successful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.