Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-02
THROAT DISEASES.
Revelations OF Science Concerning To1
silitiS and Phlegm Onis.

| Revelations OF Science Concerning Ton
| silits and Ph1egmonis.
A reporter started out recently to
find out how extensively tonsilitis was
distributed in San Francisco and
| learned that it is quite prevalent, as it
is in fact in all coast cities. As rule
| it provides a larger revenue for the
| doctors in the fall than at any other
| time of year.
Perhaps the most interesting dis
covery made by the reporter was an
| other argument against the practice Of
| kissing, which, it is learned, is also
quite prevalent in this city. If a
young lady with a sweet rosebud
mouth and a voice upon which phleg-
monis has fastened itself be kissed
phlegmonis will be the price paid by
the one who shares with her the dual
bliss. There is contagion in her sweet
breath and microbes of wondrous form
ride to new fields of conquest on her
silvery voice and soft whispers. Hosts
of subtle but riotous bacteria sit and
wait upon her coral lips quick to board
the mustached one that recklessly APP
proaches. 1t is thus plain that greater
precautions should hedge OSCILLATION
about in this city, and that no kissing
should be done until both parties have
learned whether ornot phlegmonis has
clutched the throat of the other
Phlegmonis is form of tonsilitis.
The ordinary everyday tonsilitis is
not contagious. In brief, the ordinary
form is a simple Inflammation of the
tOnsils, which are glands in the throat,
whose secretions aid somewhat in the
process of deglutition. 1t is great
satisfaction to know that this trouble
some little Inflammation is caused by
an invasion of the glands by hosts of
the liptOthrax, a bacterium which is
normal in the mouth. It is a vegetable
microbe which tiourishes at all times
in the mouth. nourished by the saliva
and by particles of food remaining in
the mouth. They cause Inflammation
of the tonsils and the swelling by
crowding into the crypts in the glands.
Phlegmonis is an inflam nation of the
tonsils, but is different from the ordi-
nary tOnsolitis in being contagious, in
the Inflammation extending to the
whole mouth. and in the liberation of
the tonsi1s. When an abcess forms in
the tonsils the disease is quinsy. Or
binary tonsilitis seldom lasts more
than week, and may be cured in
twenty-four hours. Phlegmonis lasts
longer, and is more severe
The disease does not become chronic,
but each attack enlarges the glands
and leaves them more susceptible to it.
1t, of course, greatly affects the voice
during its presence and when gone
leaves mut1led tone as legacy to
the singers voice. The only radical
cure is the removal of the glands,
which is quickly done by the guillotine,
little instrument with sliding
blade which ships off the gland in an
instant There are a great many peo-
pie on whom the guillotine has done
its work and they are generally an
improvement on nature. 1t is said
that when the tonsils are removed the
voice is improved and one or tive tones
are added to the upper register from
the fact that the pharynx is enlarged
Patti. Lucca, Materna, Kupfer, of the
Vienna opera-house, and other noted
singers have parted with this portion
of their anatomy forever.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.