Throat ailments : more especially the enlarged tonsil and elongated uvula in connexion with defects of voice, speech, hearing, deglutition, respiration, cough, nasal obstruction, and the imperfect development of health, strength, and growth, in young persons / by James Yearsley.

  • James Yearsley
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1867
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    whatever. I at once removed the exuberant growths in all of them, as well as upon a young gentleman, a cousin, who was present for the same purpose. The result in each case was most satisfactory. From the clay of the operation their general health improved, and all the disagreeable symptoms vanished. Happening to be in the neighbourhood six months afterwards, it occurred to me to ask after my young patients. Mr. begged me to walk in and judge for myself; but from their entire restoration to health, it was now impossible to point to which had been my patients and which had not. Eounded limbs and cheeks, blooming and ruddy health were shared by all alike, and it was satisfactory to me to hear that the cousin also had had equal reason to rejoice at the result of the operation. Mr. V , a surgeon in the same locality, \ipon whose child I have subsequently operated, told me that one of the young ladies is now married, a mother, and remarkable for her robust health. But derangement of the general health and arrest of de- velopment are not the only ill effects of diseased tonsils— the voice, the speech, and the hearing are often implicated and damaged by their presence—and on these additional and frequent complications, I propose to offer a few practi- cal observations. In an Appendix (A.), is the reprint of a lecture by Dr. Chassaignac, Surgeon to the Hopita] Lariboisiere, Paris, every opinion in which is confirmed by my own expe- rience. Following the lecture will be found the reprint (Appendix B.) from the Medical Circular of a communication, by Mr. Garlikc, a sound practical surgeon, residing at Tulse hill, on the subject of enlarged tonsils, in which it will be seen how futile is the attempt to argue against the results