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.

  • Yearsley, James, 1805-1869.
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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    ture of the Larynx—Distortion of Countenance—Inflammation of the Lungs—Throat-Cough and Qvula-Cough—Laryngeal Phthisis —Pulmonary Consumption ....... 19 CHAPTER IV. EPFECia OF MORBID CONDITIONS OF THE 1HR0AT ON DEGLUTITION AND DIGESTION. Position of the Morbid Growth—Paralysis of the Muscles of Deglu- tition—Effects on Digestion—Sympathetic Nausea—Hsemorrhage of the Throat—Predisposition to Catarrh—Spasmodic Stricture of the Larynx—Sloughing Tonsils 27 CHAPTER V. TREATMENT—MEDICAL, TOPICAL, AND OPERATIVE. Relative Importance of Topical and Operative Treatment in Children and Adults—Tonics—Iodide of Potassium—Emetics—Purgatives —Clothing—Dosing Children with Calomel—Diet*and Regimen— Spasm of the Glottis—Topical Applications—Gargles—Fumiga- tions—Elastic Tuhe and Bottle—Nitrate of Silver—Iodine—Acute Inflammation—Puncture of Inflamed Tonsils—Bronchotomy—Ton- silotomy—Rules for performing Tonsilotomy — Applications to the Uvula—Uvulotomy-—/Stii^^/Jiwgr reprehensible—Preference to be given to entire Excision 32 CHAPTER VI. SELECTION OP CASES. In illustration of the prejudicial influence of Morbid Conditions of the Throat on the Voice, Speech, Hearing, Deglutition, Respira- tion, and the Development of Health, Strength, and Growth of Young Persons 52