A RARE CASE OF PRIMARY LYMPHOID TUMOR SPRINGING FROM THE FLOOR OF THE RIGHT PYRIFORM SINUS. REMOVAL THROUGH THE NATURAL PASSAGES. PERMANENT RECOVERY.

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Mr. C, æt. 42, 5 ft. 10 in. high, weight 220 lbs., of Leesburg, Va., a prominent divine of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, consulted me May 4,. 1885, on account of an obstruction in the throat which seriously interfered with his vocation as a public speaker and which, when he assumed the recumbent posture, threatened suffocation from pressure on the windpipe. Mr. C. was otherwise in perfect health and could assign no cause for the existing state of affairs. Deliberate and natural in his style of declamation, he had occupied the pulpit without detriment to his vocal organs for over twenty years. Although convinced that the trouble causing the obstruction originated at an earlier date, the first time he felt sure there was anything the matter with his throat was about eight months prior to the time at which he came to me for advice. At that period he

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