Show Personal Health j V T Tonsillectomy on my Procedure i An Atrocity to Patient By Dr William n Brady ady In a personal communication from a physician of high professional professional professional repute concerning the formation for for- mation matlon of ot sugar dextrose from protein in normal human meta- meta I 1 find this incidental to toa toa toa a recommendation of mine which the Jie good doctor evidently questions questions questions ques ques- although he does not tell tell me I 1 am wrong I have n never e eve v e r used electro electro- coagulation for tonsils 1 I have been afraid to To burn out all tissue would run the danger danger dan- dan ger that subsequent sloughing of tissue issue may involve one of the large deep seated arteries The resulting resulting result result- ing ng hemorrhage would be difficult if f not impossible to control Anyway Anyway Anyway Any Any- Any Any- way that's my idea about it il I dont don't know of any specialist in otolaryngology who removes tonsils tonsils tonsils ton ton- sils by electro coagulation In the first place Doctor Doctor and and the he rest of the profession may listen isten and stop me if Im I'm wrong wrong- you vou would not like it if some physician physician phy phy- spoke of your method of ot removing tonsils I assume you prefer tonsillectomy as hacking out nit all tissue would you I know that thousands of physicians physicians resent it when I speak here hereof of that procedure as an atrocity atrocity- but in my opinion it is atrocious an and except in rare cases of malignancy malignancy malignancy malig malig- nancy or other disease disease disease dis dis- ease apparently limited as yet to the tonsil there is no sound reason for inflicting the atrocity on child chUd or adult This is ismy my idea about it and i if there is anything wrong with it let the doctors who think so point out just where It is wrong and Ill I'll publish their side ide of ot It as widely as possible Only for goodness goodness goodness good good- ness sakes fellows dont don't waste time or space telling what recognized auth authorities think about it There are none that know an any anymore anymore more than you or 1 I know about it In the next place Doctor unless Doctor unless you are dealing with cancer or other malignant disease why try to remove destroy or burn all tissue Healthy people have tissue tissue tissue-do do you advise advise advise ad ad- vise everybody to get rid of ot all allt t tissue That notion is a c crude ru de one handed down by the wholesale operators of 40 years ago The specialists of that era had to cook up some argument to keep the ordinary practitioners from getting any of ot the business Much of the damage done by bythe bythe bythe the is due to to the attempt of the perpetrator to get all ton ton- silar sUar tissue 1 I have published hed |