Tonsilitis or something of the sort set in, and he did not get any better, so we took him to Hartford.
The chief differences between the two diseases are as follows: Tonsilitis begins abruptly with pronounced prostration and a high fever the first day.
Tonsilitis is a disease that runs a certain course and gets better, or the patient develops some other more serious conditions as a result of neglect or carelessness.
The amount of physical depression that is caused by a tonsilitis is out of all proportion to the seriousness of the disease.
The local condition of the throat helps in the diagnosis: In tonsilitis (as the name implies) the disease is limited to the tonsils and on the tonsils (one or both) do we find the spots or patches.
This is why it is sometimes so difficult to tell whether the case is one of tonsilitis or diphtheria.
Children who have a tendency to frequent attacks of croup should receive the same attention as the children do who are subject to attacks of tonsilitis and acute catarrhal rhinitis.
Every case of tonsilitis should be quarantined when there are other children in the house.
In tonsilitis it is spots or patches we see in the throat.
In diphtheria we have a characteristic odor, in tonsilitis we have no characteristic odor.
So important are these conditions that it is the proper treatment to give antitoxin at once in every case of tonsilitis that in the slightest way resembles diphtheria.
Tonsilitis is medically regarded as one of the mild diseases of childhood.
Do not report submaxillary enlargement in recurrent tonsilitis or carious teeth or post-cervical enlargement in pediculosis capitis, or in impetigo or eczema of the scalp.
Do not report moderately enlarged tonsils with no history of tonsilitis nor evidence of mechanical obstruction.
Tonsilitis or quinsy sore throat is often mistaken for the mumps, but to the experienced practitioner or nurse there is no resemblance, and to mistake one for the other is almost impossible.
The treatment for tonsilitis should be prompt and active; that is, when the disease is recognized, something should be done at once to relieve it.
The writer suffered from tonsilitiswhen he was a student, and the pain was indeed excruciating for a time.
Tonsilitis occurs oftener than mumps, and unlike the latter affection, when the patient has had one attack of quinsy he is likely to have a recurrence whenever he gets a fresh cold.
How many a case of simple sore throat or tonsilitisis being paraded as a case of diphtheria.
In tonsilitis the cheek never swells, the swelled tonsils being felt only behind the jaw and quite below the ear.
Ordinarily, in diphtheria, not only are the tonsils covered with a grayish membrane, but this soon extends to the surrounding parts of the throat, whereas in tonsilitis the spots are always found on the tonsil alone.
The diphtheric membrane when removed leaves a raw, bleeding, eroded surface; whereas, the membrane of follicular tonsilitis is easily separated as there is no raw surface beneath it.
For sore mouth, sore throat, tonsilitis and quinsy, use hot infusion strong as a gargle.
It is also good as a gargle for tonsilitis and sore throat.
The glycerite of alum is useful in tonsilitis or pharyngitis when it is not acute.
I once had a friend who had a return of tonsilitis brought on through going out too soon, and the second attack was worse than the first, a genuine "hummer.
Acute rheumatism or tonsilitis are the causes and this trouble follows or goes with them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tonsilitis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
