Medicine: Operable Sinuses

Anyone subject to a running nose and swollen sinuses is further subject to rhinological indecision. One school of nose specialists insists on operating on sinuses. Another school, knowing that once a nasal sinus is entered surgically it usually requires long and tedious attention, condemns operations, advises other treatment.

Last week an able Manhattan non-interventionist, Dr. Julius Arky Haiman, told the Yorkville Medical Society, of which he is president, a simple system by which physicians and even patients can correctly diagnose an operable sinusitis. Said Dr. Haiman: “If the membranes and sinuses of the nose are thickened and reddened, this is a true sinusitis or chronic infection, and may require drainage. If, however, the membranes and sinuses are blanched they are simply water-logged as a result of vasomotor disturbances.” Such disturbances, said Dr. Haiman, may usually be cleared up by changing the diet, taking certain drugs, avoiding emotional disturbances.