On diseases of the mucous membrane of the throat, and their treatment by topical medication / by William R. Wagstaff.

Date:
1851
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Credit: On diseases of the mucous membrane of the throat, and their treatment by topical medication / by William R. Wagstaff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    inecbaiiical attrition with the diseased body, Chronio enlargement and induration of the tonsil, is not accompanied by any pain upon pressure, unless the gland is in a state of irrita- tion or inflammation ;—diseased conditions to which it is extremely subject. The cellular tissue situated between the fol- licles of the tonsil, is often the seat of inflam- mation, which terminates in suppuration or chronic thickening and induration. This latter organic alteration frequently constitutes the true state of the so-called scirrhous tonsil. In some instances the destruction of the adjacent walls of three or four follicles, and the intervening cellular tissue, will create one large cavity lined by a membrane which secretes a fluid greatly modified in quality from the na- ' tural secretion of the healthy follicle. This unhealthy product varies in consistence from pus, or a cheesy concrete friable substance, like tubercle, to the solidity of a calculous deposit. Tonsillary calculi are often found imbedded in the substance of the glandular body, varying in size from the bulk of a grain of millet to that of a kidney-bean. The colour of these