It is unnecessary to describe spurs or excrescences of the septum narium further than to say that they are outgrowths of cartilage or bone, or of both combined, which project from the septum into the lumen of the nostril, thereby causing obstruction to nasal respiration and drainage. In size, contour and exact location they are of infinite variety and the symptoms which they produce vary correspondingly in nature and degree, being at times so grave as regards complete occlusion, deformity, pressure effects, and the induction of neuroses, as to demand removal by whatever means, and again occasioning merely a sense of inconvenience or annoyance. Customarily, excrescences are removed by surgical means, by the knife, saw and drill, and these methods are still to be indorsed for the majority of cases. In skillful hands they are more rapid, more precise, and in the case of large bony spurs, it would seem,