[Struggles with nasal septum malformations in the XIX century].

The maxilla-premaxilla approach to extensive nasal septum surgery performed in 1959 by M.H. Cottle and all is a obligatory method today. The struggle with a nasal septum deformations from the half of eighteenth of XIX century is presented (S.T. Quelmaltz). The correction of nasal septum by "the compression method", usually the vain method performed by A. Jurasz sen., P.L-B. Guersant, M. Warren, E.P. Chassaignac, F. Petersen and others are described in detail. The willful nasal septum perforation was performed by P.F. Blondin and P.T. Rupprecht. The special forceps were used by A. Jurasz sen. and R. Adams. The dorsum nasal cut was performed by J.N. Demarquay and B.R. Langenbeck. The destruction of inferior nasal concha was performed by M. Mackenzie and P. Delavan. The employment of galvanokauterization and electrolysis by A. Jurasz sen., F.E. Voltolini, C. Miot and E.M. Moure is mentioned. A description of fenestrated resection of septi nasi by Krieg in 1886 and then modified by G. Killian is presented.