On exuberant growths of the tonsils as a fertile source of delicate health and arrest of development in young persons : with the treatment to be adopted for their removal / by James Yearsley.
- James Yearsley
- Date:
- 1866
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On exuberant growths of the tonsils as a fertile source of delicate health and arrest of development in young persons : with the treatment to be adopted for their removal / by James Yearsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![of health of the patient, it would have been injudicious to wait the result of medical and topical treatment; one of the enlargements, therefore, was immediately removed, which was sufficient to diminish the most pressing evils of the case. This was followed in about a fortnight by a second operation on the opposite side, the throat having in the meantime put on a healthier appearance, and the urgency of the other symptoms diminished. This case remained under treatment several months, during which time, in addition to the excision of the morbid growths, tonic and alterative medicines were administered. The effects of the combined treatment were most grati- fying. At the termination of the case, the general healtli and growth, which had previously been so much retarded, had undergone a strikingly beneficial change ; and the symptoms I have described as inflicting so much misery had altogether disappeared. A child, whose arrival at adolescence was considered an impossibility, now bids fair to be as healthy and robust as her parents. [This patient is now married, and has a family of three healthy children.] Enlanjed Tonsils, producing great susceptibility to Sore-Throat. B. K., aged thirty-five, had suffered several years from frequent attacks of cynanclie tonsillaris, complicated with a sub-intlamraatory affection of the trachea and larger hronchi, which appeared to depend on diseased tonsils, as these glands, from being in an enlarged and iiTitable condition, became affected by almost every exposure to wet and cold. It should be remarked, that the occupation of this patient obliged liim to expose himself often to bad](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2227327x_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
