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
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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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    Case of Deafness and Defective S2Jeech from Enlarged Tonsils. E. M., nineteen years of age, residing at Stoke Newing- ton, has been deaf fourteen years, attributable to cold and sore throat, which left a morbid condition of the mucous membrane of the throat, giving rise to effects so similar to a common cold, as to account for the statement of the mother, who says that her daughter is never without a cold. The hearing became gradually worse up to the time of her applying at the Institution. The speech had become thick, and in reading she was almost unintelligible. Pier general appearance is much more healthy than is usually seen in such cases. The mucous membrane of the throat was much congested, and the tonsils enlarged. The nose was also obstructed, so that her breathing could be heard almost across a room. She complained of frequent shooting pams in her head, snoring at night, difficulty in blowing the nose, &c. Catheterism, and the use of the nasal probe, ameliorated her condition, but did not cure. Tonsilotomy was ultimately resorted to with the happiest effects. The hearing has daily improved, and at the time I am taking these notes of her case, she can hear a clock tick in an adjoining room, or a whisper, wit];LOut difficulty. In the foregoing pages it will be observed I have laid it down almost as an axiom that excision is the only true and reliable remedy for an enlarged and indurated tonsil. A surgical operation ordinarily implies pain and subsequent suffering, and patients are frequently deterred from sub- mitting to it on these accounts. Nothing of the kind attends upon the removal of an enlarged tonsil if the operation be