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Show . A dangerous symptom in this case, however, is a bad sore throat withont fever fe-ver at the ontaet. I have seen the most fatal canes of diphtheria start in this way, and I dread such cases most of all. A tronbloaome sore throat before the fever comes on is suspicions, and needs a physician physi-cian promptly. A fover, accompanied generally with coryza, bat not always, followed by sore throat, is probably ton-silitis, ton-silitis, and can be treated at home generally. gen-erally. We may get white spots in both cases. The white spots differ widely in j the two diseases. In tonsilitis the white spoto are merely dead colii that are lnvken down, difintejrrnted and are forced to tho surface. They can be ; brushed away, but they are a trifling i thing as compared with the spots in diph- theria. I Without going deeply into the subject I of diphtheria at this time, I shall simply say that tho sjiote in this disease are the j appearancentthesnrfiweof the tonsils of : a tenacious membrane. This membrane dips down into the surface of the tonsils, and if removed leaves a bleeding, ugly ' track behind it, which ia later filled with ! another membrano just as tenacious. A I Physician iu Boston Globe, i ' ' ' Diphtheria end Tonsilitis. Diphtheria i.a constitutional disease; ! it is in tho blooa, but it many times manifests man-ifests itself locally in tho throat. It ' often causes white spots to appear on the ' tonsils and oven on other parts of the throat. But these white spots are far ; different in np'iear.mce from those seeu i in toi-silitia. A great number of persons per-sons are frightened as soon as they see white spots on the tonsils; bnfc if there is ' no epidemic of diphtheria in the neigh-. i boyhood do not, as a general thing, fenr , that tlio trouble is diphtheria. Iu nine ' I cases out of tea it ia tontolitia. 1 I 1 |