Abstract
The ideal therapeutic procedure is one that cures the disease with the minimum of danger to the life of the patient, and with the least possible damage to normal tissues and to the function of important organs. This is the very foundation of all surgery, and must not be forgotten by those of us who treat the diseases of the eye, ear, nose, throat and larynx. The majority of the maladies of these organs of special sense are due to bacterial infection, and it is of the greatest importance for the future comfort and happiness of the patient that the functions of these organs should be retained or restored to normal. It is not good surgery to cure a chronic suppurative sinusitis by the removal of large areas of mucous membrane for no other reason than the fact that it is infected and thickened and looks abnormal. Such a radical
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