The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-21
so YOU STILL HAVE YOUR
 TONSILS?

TONSILS?
 A lady who had complained at in- tervals for several years of swelling, stiffness and pain in the small joints of the hands submitted to series of diathermy treatments (electro-coag- ulation) of her tonsils at the hands of a physician skilled in this con- servative method. Thereafter for several years the patient had no further arthritic manifestations. Her family physician inferred that while the joint condition may have been coincidental, still it was reasonable to believe that the pastuerization, sterilization or disinfection of sep tic focus in the tonsil, by the dia- thermy treatments, had brought about the improvement"
 But, alas, the lady subsequently, visited an all-around specialist" in another state for new glasses. Cas- ually she told the specialist" how much benefit she had derived from the tonsil treatment. The special ist" asked permission to examine her throat. He had look, and informed the lady that she still had her ton- sils!
 Now, with many patients that quack trick might work. It is 8 shop worn, shabby bit of quackery prac- ticed on the innocent public by a. | good many such specialists" as well as general practitioners whose ton- sillectomy trade has suffered a slump in recent years.
 In this instance it didn't ruffle the peace of mind noticeably. Rather she was quietly amused by the child ish attempt of the specialist to damn her family physician and the doctor who had given her the diathermy treatment.
 Of course she still had more or less , of her tonsils. That is one advantage of diathermy (electro-coagulation) over crude tonsillectomy (guillotine and snare) it conserves the normal, undamaged portion of the tonsil whenever possible.
 The trick specialist" Che repre- sents a disgracefully large class of physicians in practice today) of course sought to imply that, had the patient been subjected to tonsillec- tony (guillotine and snare) at the hands of competent throat spe- cialist, she would not now have a portion of her tonsils still present The old Spanish custom, you upso- phisticated laymen are to under stand, gets all the tonsil not to men, tion odds and eds of the pillars throat muscles, etc., if these happen to fall into the bite of the snare oI
 the closing maw of the guillotine That deceit is part of the stock ir
 trade of the quack specialists of ths day-the brass specialists-that kinc . that depend for business or practice or patronage, not on the respect ane , good will of their colleges as homes specialists do, but. purely on thu credulty of the publicly making
 prospective customers believe that Ii . the tricksters manage to coax to tn l operating room a good many victim
 who really should know better. |, In the Journal of the Americal ; Medical Association Drs. P. 5 Rhoads and G. F. Dick reported tha
 they found pieces of tonsil of appre Y ciable size in the throats of person who had undergone tonsillectomy, i
 fact in 73 per cent of such persons
 and often these tonsil stumps har
 bored more pathogenic bacteria pc
 gram than the infected tonsils ha I harbored.
 l So, if you still have your tonsil' = maybe you are lucky. y QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS " Old Vanished Custom
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