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Show Warning Against 'Tooth, Tonsil J erkers9 Issued at Medical Association Parley ST. LOUIS, May 16 lff-A warning against disease treatments treat-ments by "tooth and tonsil Jerk-rs" Jerk-rs" was issued todsy before th ninetieth annual meeting of the American Medical association. Contrary to popular and medical medi-cal opinion, th teeth and tonsils are not as common a source as is believed ef infection causing rhsiimaliam, arthritis and aimi- i lar diseases. Dr. Hobart A. Rel-mann Rel-mann and Dr. W. Paul Havens of Philadelphia declared. The contribution of these tissue tis-sue to th cause of general Infection In-fection ia no greater than that ef ether tissues ef the body, such as the lymph glands, they declared, de-clared, but since they are readily read-ily available for surgical work their extraction has become popular. Oftentimes their removal may relieve an infectious condition if It centers In an inflamed throat or a pus pocket on a tooth root, but many supposedly infected teeth and tonsils are not actually actu-ally infected and the indiscrimi-aate indiscrimi-aate removal ef them ia the vague hope of correcting th general gen-eral infection cannot be justified, justi-fied, the Philadelphia physicians said. |