UNUSUAL COMPLICATIONS OF ACUTE TONSILLITIS

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Serious complications from a mild grade of acute follicular tonsillitis are infrequent, and yet they do occur. This case is reported because of its interest in that it represents the possible complications following acute tonsillitis, and in order to stimulate the realization that mild grades of acute tonsillitis are potentially very serious and, therefore, require constant observation. As so frequently happens, the personal side of this tragedy was most pathetic. The patient, in excellent health, accompanied her family here for operations. Her husband was operated on for duodenal ulcer, and tonsils and adenoids were removed from her two children. When all were ready to go home, the patient, herself, became ill. REPORT OF CASE Mrs. S. W. J., aged 31, was admitted to the Worrell Hospital, April 30, 1923, with an acute streptococcic tonsillitis of twenty-four hours' duration. The tonsillitis subsided, the temperature dropped, and the patient appeared to be

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