END-RESULTS OF TONSILLECTOMY

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No subject in medicine has caused greater discussion during the last fifty years than the faucial tonsil. Innumerable papers on every phase of it, medical, surgical, physiologic, pathologic, have been written. The laryngologist has been the object of constant ridicule and attack on its account. During recent years, however, the pendulum has swung in the other direction. No longer is the laryngologist solely responsible for the removal of the tonsils. Internist, otologist, pediatrician, all have united in urging the removal of this alleged source of all human ills until the operation has become one of the most frequent in surgery. The Baltimore laryngologist who charged his friend "with paving the street in front of his office with tonsils" may be recalled. At present it would rather be, for many enthusiasts, a case of "blocking off the street with tonsils." The successful "tonsillectomist who cannot boast of having slain his thousands

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