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'v-- vrT tr - V-- f ' - - )r'i'i''&&w-'- 1 ! fi l v I j&x y S i & 1 ' ‘ K I ' TX is'i i t- - I -- ’T ' c '“o Alfred Walton Surgical Division Essex New Jersey Corresponding emy of Medicine and Science hygiene and preventive medicine ing Walnut St Philadelphia conj ecture how many hundred have followed the promis- - ' this surgical procedure by In view of tlie above statenent ently unlimited in its application A physician in general practice tp the writer’s knowledge within five minutes recommended tonsillectomy to the first three patients whom he had seen in his office that afternoon Rontgeneological vision on the part of some physicians is really remarkable in view of the fact that the best learned laryngologists agree that the question of diseased tonsils is often a difficult one to decide from mere inspection The public has been unfortunately educated to have their tonsils removed A vicious result of a promiscuous procedure Forty boys within one month have had their adenoids and tonsils remore are scheduled for moved and seventy-fiv- e the same operation at a training school in Minnesota “because the medical fraternity find that these organs are largely responsible for delinquency in the young” A specialist in the Massachusetts General Hospital discussing the results of tonsillectomy at the institution writes as follows: “Of the fifteen cases in which the reason for removal is not known several were no doubt operated on because they were under an anesthic for adenoids operation and it was thought just as well to get the tonsils out too without considering whether there were good reasons for their removal or not” Dr Moore concludes his article as follows: “We offer our argument against promiscuous tonsillectomy chiefly to the mind of youth whose minds are not scelerosed and who are not beyond the pale of regenerative thought They axe capable of molding their judgment upon a safe and sane basis and therefore we present our appeal regardless of their extreme ideals already inculcated in them the product of what might be called bizarre teaching Tonsillectomy has become the germ of medical hysteria and by the indiscriminate and immoderate employment of tonsillectomy this operation has blossomed into the jesture of therapeutic measures and' the down of the surgical procedures —but a prince of finanders nevertheless” You will note from the above article by Dr Moore who is vainly striving to call a halt on the butchery of the public that it is high time that the public should avoid the pitfalls of surgery and it is a blessing indeed as has been pointed out by Dr Walton that the science of Chiropractic will remove the cause of tonsilitis and my plea is for the children who are helpless who have no wish in the matter and who are thoughtlessly taken the shambles the results of which day too often leave tire child to are 0ften fatd suffer for years to come During my five years’ practice in the State of xJtah it has been my good fortune to have restored to health many children brought by their parents stating that the medical inspector of the public schools had stated that the child must be we quote from the Medical Record 'Dec 2d' S E Moore M D LL D Lecturer in medical school of of Minnesota has an article of considerable length under the caption “ DANGERS AlNIM : I IBM J :y Uni-versi- ty rr’- - - 'v- OF TONSILLECTOMY ” Quite caustic are Dr Moore’s remarks as follows: 14 Canines are muzzled because of their potential power to transmit rabies Typhoid icarriers are quarantined Chloroform because of the fatalities following its use has been discarded in many localities and ‘Dammersclilaf’ following very low foetal mortality ascribed to its employment has been prohibited by the board oY directors in at y least one hospital in the United States but COMPLICATIONS tonil-lectom- with its fatalities dangers and complications goes on unmolested Tonsillectomy is not a recent addition to our surgical procedures Writing in 10 A D Celsus says ‘Tonsils which remain indurated and inflamed if covered by a thin membrane should be loosened by working the finger around and then tom out but when this is not practicable they should be seized with a hook and then excised with a scalpel We ' are now reaping the whirlwind the result of the momentum of ages which was sown centuries ago by the immortal but radical Celsus” Citing numerous authorities and it may be v said in passing that the men whose reports are included in the article by Dr S E Moore are eminent scientists and include the greatest specialists in the United States Our space will not permit the article to be printed in full but under the separate headings we will quote a few of the ( : - w 9 v? authorities and the results Dr Moore states that multifarious complica- tions following tonsillectomy a surgical procedure which is looked upon by many physicians as nursery surgery in more senses than one but which in truth as Joseph Bryan laryngologist says is always a major operation HEMORRHAGE lany cases of alarming primary and some secondary’ hemorrhages are reported Dr Jkloore states that he knows of a case of death due to hemorrhage following tonsillectomy Crocket reports twelve fatal cases and many serious cases occurring in one year and a half in and around Boston Sewell reports nineteen deaths and fifty severe hemorrhages Stuckey records a death after operation from hemorrhage and nine cases of ligation and suturing pillars SchucHardt reports a case in which the court found a verdict that death was due to hemorrhage' strangulation or shock Rose speaks of a case of fatal hemorrhage six hours after operation Price reports a case of fatal Shurley records a case of serious hemorrhage hemorrhage and was threatened with suit for - F J FREENOR D C m last named physician died of a pulmonary ab- scess Webster— eight cases of lung suppuration Richardson records two cases of pulmonary in-farct one necessitating an opening to drain a lung' abscess Beck reports a case of pulmonary ab- scess Laplay 'reports a case of pulmonary eni-holism' Richardson and Wishart report fatal cases from hyperprexia Chuckett refers to a pa- tient of his who died from 4 der the voice nasal rapid formations of granula- tions require weeks for removal Pfrngst reports fifteen cases where pillars were buttonholed dur-r ing operation Sheedy found forty deformed throats out of fifty cases operated upon elsewhere Wisllart reRprts three cases of irregularity ih the palate arch resulting from contracture Infection of the' middle ear J Still found acute otitis media to follow tonsillectomy Dickey reports twelve CSLSeS of aIute suppurative otitis media one of Tivyi have yet to fail in a single instance in removing DLJ17TvJ ATQlVVr which led to a fatal meningitis the cause of tonsilitis under' adjustments the inflamed condition of the tonsils subsides immediately and the children are saved from this opera- use tionf Recently in our midst in Salt Lake City a reports 'four deaths following the Sheedy “ ' ' young lady died on the bpierating table of a promi- ilt Lake physician ' Physicians who passed vu v death stated that death was caused by m- j :'' j senses are reported bjf the follomngspeciwteirerts hiding sponge Surely it "is times to Dunbar cause being call a: halt on needless operations and there should Dabney Hedges Stuckey' y— reports results Beck records a similar case to the a case of partial paralysis of the soft palate Son-- DrRichard8on explaihs th phenomena as due toldelayeid anestlietic poison Still speaks oY another be some means of correcting this evil some way of from the blbodwhiSi case' which tag reports a case in: which "deathsued frem' try the simpler appeared to be due''simplti)Tfixing the respoMibilij autointjiti first and then if it fails apply: to your Socialists reporting to Dr Blum speak of : general infection bn the seventh day Dean re-- swallowed during the operationS' - V 5 i surgeomCForyour (dxildren s sake consider well 't": cords - three 'casei:-bsepsus one patient died ' oh ifeS ’the sixth day Ballenger reports two severe cases-- s t Pierce records a case " of infection resultinir ' : to-m- e - ether-pneumoni- — - 0: a f j- - At-leas- t J Y ' : ' f AKENDIGinIS r - s itk v- - w ' r v T'r J |