Word: tonsil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particular interest is the fact that there is still a large increase in the proportion of men who have undergone tonsil and adenoid operations, 39 per cent having had the undesirable members removed this year while only 33 per cent were recorded for the previous year...
...before you could say your prayers or take a final or even find a pretty debutante, there we were at the circus with peanuts crowding their impulsive way down the leathery necks of mauve pachyderms, horses, horses, and my rooommate absent mindedly dangling a red balloon over his right tonsil...
Doctors who dared no virtuosity in their professional practice showed last week at the Academy of Medicine, Manhattan, how they toyed as artists in their leisure hours. The hand that swabbed a tonsil also daubed a canvas. Lancet or engraving tool fitted equally well the hand of a surgeon; probe or mahlstick the hand of another physician. What paintings, etchings and statuary they had finished they brought to the Academy for the exhibit. Included in the list were...
...Cancers of the lip, mouth, tongue and tonsil are due mainly to broken or sharp-edged and uneven teeth or to tobacco. Gastric cancer is generally traced to abuse of the stomach. Early and abrupt weaning is a frequent cause of mammary cancer. Altogether, these and other cancers are the result of known causes and can be prevented."-James Ewing of Manhattan. He added that no effective antiseptic has been discovered. He recommended gargling with plain soap and water...
...what are cancers of the lip, mouth, tongue, tonsil, mainly...