The swellings of the tonsils are sensible to the eye and touch externally, and have an elastic rather than an oedematous feel, like parts in the vicinity of gangrenes.
Inflammation of the tonsils with sensitive inirritated fever is a symptom only of contagious fever, whether attended with scarlet eruption, or with confluent small-pox, or otherwise.
The inflammation of the tonsils may be divided into three kinds, which require different methods of cure.
One night she wanted to unlace his shoes and even shine them--would have, in fact, except for his fierce catching of her into his arms and for some reason his tonsils aching as he kissed her.
She nodded, her tonsilssqueezed together in an absolute knot.
The disease may resemble: A very mild sore throat, the tonsils and back of the mouth being redder than usual, and the person not feeling ill.
Not only the tonsils but also the uvula, the small rounded end of the palate which hangs down between the tonsils, may have on it white or gray patches.
The tonsils swell up and the follicles exude a thick fluid which looks like curdled cream.
Foreign bodies must be removed, adenoids taken out, large tonsils excised, and malformations of the nasal bones operated upon.
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.
Further, breathing through the mouth has a tendency to induce inflammation in the tonsils and in the air passage connecting with the ear.
The elongated uvula is to be snipped off, and abscesses of the tonsils opened tout comme chez nous.
Some had a sore-throat without any eruption, and a very few had an eruption with no affection of the throat beyond the tonsils and uvula swollen.
In the milder form, there was only a superficial whiteness of the uvula, tonsils and velum; in the more severe, the same parts were beset with thick ulcerations, running very deep in the fauces.
About the second or third day there were whitish or yellowish sloughs on the tonsilsand uvula, which in many cases left deep, ragged ulcers.
Dr Wall goes on to say that the "Kidderminster sore-throat" had a vast variety of symptoms, the only certain ones being aphthous ulcers and sloughs on the tonsils and parts about the pharynx.
Swellings of the tonsils and uvula were not observed.
In some the tonsils were beset with aphthous sloughs, and towards the decline there would be aphthae of the mouth, but symptomatic only, and not the dominant lesion as in the ulcerous sore-throat.
The throat was slightly sore for twelve or twenty-four hours; it then became fiery red, the uvula andtonsils being much swelled.
He refers also to pain and swelling of the tonsils and to difficulty of swallowing, which, if followed by hoarseness, hollow eyes, and the facies Hippocratica, portended speedy death.
This happens very frequently in the tonsils, so that persons who have infected tonsils may have pus formation going on month in and month out.
Infected tonsils are looked after, not simply because they bring about sore throat now and then, but even more because of the poison which they are likely to send through the body.
There are enough lymph nodes in the region about the throat, so that if tonsils or adenoids are removed any foreign matters that get into the body fluids will still be filtered out.
Closely related to the tonsils are the masses of adenoid tissue at the back of the throat which frequently grow to an undue size in children, and are then known as adenoids.
The tonsils are lymph nodes at the base of the tongue.
The fauces and tonsils are occasionally the seat of a hard chancre, and the condition may simulate malignant disease.
When the condition is interfering with the general health or with the development of the chest, or when there is deafness or disturbance of sleep, the tonsilsshould be removed.
Sometimes the tonsils project to such an extent as almost to meet in the middle line; sometimes they scarcely pass beyond the level of the pillars of the fauces.
Tuberculous# lesions of the fauces and tonsils are almost invariably secondary to tubercle of the larynx or lungs, or to lupus of the face or naso-pharynx.
Sometimes the exudate accumulates on the surface of the tonsils and pharynx, forming a thin, greyish-white film, which is liable to be mistaken for the false membrane of diphtheria.
This is an acute suppurative inflammation of the tonsils and peritonsillar tissue, due to infection with pyogenic bacteria.
The patient is liable to periodic attacks, particularly if the tonsils are chronically enlarged.
As those who suffer from quinsy are liable to have attacks coming on periodically, if the tonsils remain permanently enlarged they should be removed between attacks.
The vessels of the base converge into several large trunks which pass out behind the tonsils and drain directly into the deep cervical glands.
The tonsils are enlarged, and project so that they obstruct the isthmus of the fauces, sometimes even meeting in the middle line.
He asked Professor Brierly: "What is it, Prof, is it me tonsils or me teeth?
I had me tonsils out and a tooth carpenter recently socked me a hell of a wad for fixin' up me grinders.
These symptoms continuing to increase, the patient is threatened with suffocation, the tonsils suppurate, when, by a spontaneous bursting of the abscess, relief instantly follows.
On inspection, the tonsils appear red and enlarged.
When the swelling of the tonsils comes on rapidly, send instantly for a surgeon.
The seven children pictured here were discovered by their school physician to have moderately large adenoid growths,--one boy having enlarged tonsils also.
They may also cause enlarged tonsils and ear trouble.
Every time food is taken, and at every act of swallowing, germs flow over the tonsils into the stomach.
Again, if children must have teeth filled and pulled, eyes tested and fitted for glasses, adenoids and enlarged tonsils removed, surely the school environment offers the least affrighting spot for the tragedy.
The tonsils and adenoids removed are pictured on the opposite page, reduced one third.
To locate children who have enlarged tonsilsmay prevent a diphtheria epidemic.
The indexes to adenoids and large tonsils for the teacher to read at school are: 1.
The adenoids and large tonsils discovered at school are an index: 1.
Therefore the importance of a physical test at school to detect the beginnings of adenoids and large tonsils before these symptoms become obvious to others.
When the removal of tonsils or other operation is not carried out at the same time, an anæsthesia of less than a minute is sufficient.
The entrance into the larynx of vomited food or blood is certainly dangerous, and may occur during the simplest operations even when properly performed, as, for instance, during removal of tonsils or adenoids.
Thus, nasal obstruction may be unrelieved: foci of suppuration may be left in the accessory sinuses: portions of adenoid growth or tonsils left behind may continue to give trouble: malignant growths may not be extirpated freely enough.
When thetonsils require removal, or any other operation on the upper air-passages is carried out at the same time, and in young children generally, an anæsthesia allowing of more deliberation is desirable.
If present, tonsils can be conveniently removed at this stage.
It may be a quicker and apparently more effective process to remove the inflamed appendix or the diseased tonsils than to cure them by building up the blood and inducing elimination of systemic poisons by natural methods.
The tonsils and adenoids, the appendix vermiformis and probably a few other parts of the human anatomy would be extirpated in early youth under compulsion of the health departments.
In that case, also, relief through the surgeon's knife is sought and then the process is reversed: after the adenoids have been removed, the tonsils develop chronic catarrhal conditions.
When both tonsils and adenoids have been removed, the nasal membranes will, in turn, become congested and swollen.
After the tonsils have been removed, the morbid matter which they were eliminating usually finds the nearest and easiest outlet through the adenoid tissues and nasal membranes.
If the blood is poisoned through overeating and faulty food combinations, or with scrofulous, venereal or psoriatic poisons, the tonsils are called upon, along with other organs, to eliminate these morbid taints.
The papillæ were slightly enlarged, but they were natural, and one of the tonsils was shrunk.
There were no indications of a syphilitic character about the sores, and there was no ulceration of the throat, but one of the tonsils was slightly enlarged and tender.
The attack is generally brought on by exposure to cold, and lasts from five to seven days, when it subsides naturally, or an abscess may form in tonsils and burst, or the tonsils may remain enlarged, the inflammation subsiding.
Treatment with sixty injections of 5 grains of sodium cacodylate gave results as follows: The initial sore on the penis disappeared in ten injections; there were severe mucous patches of the mouth; the tonsils were badly infected.
And flowing into every tiny corner of the gums, tonsils and throat, into places where no gargle ever reaches, it most effectively disinfects the throat.
The absence of glandular swelling does not exclude the diagnosis of diphtheria, for when the tonsils are affected by the disease there is usually little or no swelling of the neighboring glands.
Pretty looks upon those cases of croup that have their original seat in the tonsils as contagious.
This is especially the case when the tonsils are very large and occupy a prominent position in the throat.
In general, however, the slight attempts at vomiting suffice to cause a great part of the swollen posterior portion of the tonsils to become visible.
In ordinary cases the patient rests quietly and sleep is undisturbed, unless the tonsils are enlarged, when it is liable to interruption from loud snoring.
Liebermeister says that the lymphatic follicles which surround the glands at the root of the tongue and in the tonsils are often affected in the same way as the glands.
The tonsils are proportionally large; in fact, we rarely see the tonsils in children completely sheltered by the arches of the palate.
The tonsils sometimes become considerably enlarged, though suppuration must be rare.
All efforts at mastication are suspended, and deglutition is so painful, especially when the tonsils become enlarged, that the sufferer bears the pangs of hunger and thirst rather than endure the agony entailed in satisfying his wants.
Small isolated spots are found on thetonsils and occasionally on the posterior wall of the pharynx.
Enlarged tonsils should be resected, or, where that can not be done, scraped out with Simon's spoon, at a time when no diphtheritic epidemic is raging.
Scarification or removal of part of the tonsils is followed in half a day or a day by a deposit of diphtheritic membrane on the wound.
An exudation appeared upon histonsils and uvula, and his temperature reached 104°.
Between facts and fables, the evidence with regard to the tonsils and their functions seems to establish the conclusion that they have been wrongfully and foolishly held responsible for "an iliad of ills.
Usually the teeth are ruined during youth because children breathe through the mouth instead of through the nose,--either on account of the physical condition of the nose or because the tonsils are enlarged.
Such tonsils are the special prey of the tonsillectomist.
The tonsils are phonatory or vocal organs and play an important part in the mechanism of speech and song.
This matter of the functions of the tonsils is fully dealt with in my greater work "Regeneration or Dare to be Healthy"--Chapters VII.
They are told that with the disappearance of the tonsils in man, certain diseases will cease to exist and parents nowadays bring their perfectly sound children for tonsil removal in order to head off these affections.
Never," he says, "in the history of medicine has the lust for operation on the tonsils been as passionate as it is at the present time.
In Class II I found a more motley throng, led by the collar-bone on the one hand and the tonsils on the other.
And what a difference between having one's tonsils cut out (Class II) and getting a new set of false teeth (Class V)!
Consult Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations" for appropriate verses dealing with tonsils and throat troubles.
Find out, for example, how many people hadtonsils removed in February, March, April.
If the throat is examined in the early stage, the white membrane is first seen in the tonsils and as the disease progresses it spreads to the palate, the pharynx and the nasal passages.
In tonsilitis the cheek never swells, the swelled tonsils being felt only behind the jaw and quite below the ear.
If the bowels are constipated give a laxative at once, and over the painful tonsilsapply a flaxseed poultice, keeping the neck and head wrapped up well at the same time.
Sometimes the glands of the neck and the tonsils swell and become very painful; for this the Belladonna ointment applied with gentle friction night and morning and the neck enveloped in cotton batting are certain to give relief.
Some children are so well trained that they will respond at once, and then by means of a spoon handle the tongue is depressed, and the tonsils come into view.
The swollen tonsils are red and dotted with yellowish spots, which is due to the suppuration of the follicles of which the gland is composed.
The affected tonsils become as large as pigeon eggs, and can be readily felt beneath the angle of the lower jaw.
So they went to the party, and Cuthbert was rather glad, because one of the girls there was a girl called Doris, who had been in hospital having her tonsils out just at the same time as he.
He was only pretending, however, because just after Christmas he had been in hospital having his tonsils out, and he had already missed two or three parties and didn't mean to miss another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tonsils" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
