Tonsillitis may be idiopathic, deuteropathic or symptomatic, or traumatic.
This form of tonsillitis is very frequent, and is often confounded with parenchymatous tonsillitisor with tonsillar abscess.
Mycosis tonsillaris is a synonym for mycotic tonsillitis (tonsillitis mycotica benigna or tonsillitis parasitica).
The predisposing cause of idiopathic tonsillitis is usually diathetic, and is associated with congenital or inherited vulnerability of the organ.
The tonsillitis of diphtheria is sometimes termed tonsillitis diphtheritica, tonsillitis mycotica maligna; that of rheumatism, tonsillitis rheumatica, angina rheumatica, rheumatic sore throat.
Tonsillitis is more frequent in individuals with chronically diseased tonsils than in individuals in whom these glands are healthy.
In another class of cases of tonsillitis the inflammatory process may be chiefly parenchymatous, for rarely is it wholly so.
Herpetic tonsillitis requires the ordinary treatment for erythematous tonsillitis, with additional topical treatment by sprays of alkaline solutions, such as sodium borate or bicarbonate, five grains to the ounce, or lime-water.
Common membranous or pseudo-membranous sore throat (angina membranosa communis) is used as a synonym for herpetic or membranous tonsillitis (tonsillitis herpetica seu membranosa).
Parenchymatous tonsillitis may subside by resolution, or, as is quite frequent, terminate by suppuration.
Lacunar tonsillitis sometimes subsides by spontaneous evacuation of the pent-up contents of secretion and desquamation, the parts returning to their normal condition.
It is favorable, as a rule, in phlegmonous tonsillitis subsiding within ten or twelve days in most instances, even though all the stages be completed to suppuration and discharge of the abscess.
The prognosis of catarrhal tonsillitis is almost invariably favorable, except under very obviously unfavorable conditions, the inflammatory process subsiding spontaneously within a few days.
Chapter X Suppressive Surgical Treatment of Tonsillitis and Enlarged Adenoids The following paragraphs are taken from an article in the ~Nature Cure Magazine~ May, 1909, titled "Surgery for Tonsillitis and Adenoids.
This sclerotic change is due to the repeated attacks of catarrhal or suppurative tonsillitis to which the patient is subject.
A new surgeon coming to take charge of the post set about investigating the cause of this state of affairs, and came to the conclusion that the disease began as, or closely followed, tonsillitis and other forms of sore throat.
He knew that Miss Webb had tonsillitis because his sister washes for the Webbs,” Chub explained.
It was to come off last night, but the leading lady came down with tonsillitis and it’s been postponed.
It may also follow a follicular tonsillitis or some infection of the mouth or throat with or without arthritis.
Tonsillitis in a more or less acute form, however, sometimes so mild as to be almost unnoticed, probably precedes most attacks of acute inflammatory rheumatism.
Acute streptococcie tonsillitis is a very frequent disease, and the patient generally, under proper treatment, quickly recovers.
It may be noted that this epidemic of tonsillitis was actually fatal to Miss Susan B.
Tonsillitis was epidemic in the city; the halls were draughty; at one meeting a woman with a severe cold, a stranger, kissed her effusively.
In many instances the catarrhal symptoms are due to a pharyngitis and tonsillitis only, the lower air-passages escaping.
Pharyngitis and tonsillitis of mild grade occur in from 3 to 25 per cent.
Still, acute attacks of tonsillitis appear on good evidence to be more common among individuals predisposed constitutionally to rheumatic manifestations.
Cases of acute tonsillitis may or may not go on to suppuration or quinsy; in all there is great congestion of the glands, increased mucus secretion, and often secondary involvement of the lymphatic glands of the neck.
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