Word: tonsil
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...researchers conclude that in the case of the five paralyzed children the tonsil operation was "the precipitating factor," warn doctors and parents that tonsil operations are dangerous during the poliomyelitis season (summer and fall), even though the disease "is not notably prevalent in a community." Probable connection between tonsillectomies and poliomyelitis: nerves injured by surgery are more susceptible to polio infection, so that the latent virus could travel readily from the injured throat nerves to the medulla oblongata, where the spinal cord enters the brain...
...went to Markert's office with his father. Mr. Freiwald waited while the two osteopaths placed Walter on an operating table. Markert, assuming that he was within the law by acting as Maxfield's assistant, gave the boy ether. Maxfield then began to snip out the right tonsil, he said...
...companions of the gentler sex settled back to enjoy the antics of Gale Noyes and his operatic troupe. The curtain raiser was a modern opera concerned entirely with the touching theme of a house on fire: Walter Birge '35 intoned magnificently as the diva reaching new highs of operatic tonsil abuse. Donald Gleason '35 joined in most capably as Miss Birge's singing spouse and Larry Nichols '35 cut an imposing figure as the rescuing fireman. The main aria "I Smell Smoke" was enthusiastically received...
...Having his tonsils out will make little difference in his susceptibility to colds, and bronchitis occurs more frequently in tonsillectomized children and the same is true of pneumonia. On the other hand an infected tonsil may develop local trouble, may be a factor in systemic disease and may be a cause in less easily classified but threatening diseases such as excessive fatigue. It also may be a factor in scarlet fever and diphtheria...
...Hospital, Surgeon David H. Jones related, an interne makes a preoperative examination of the patient's skin, nose, throat, ears, heart, lungs and kidneys. Continued Dr. Jones, "All patients with any suspected involvement, including rise in temperature over 100.4° F., are held for final examination by the Tonsil Supervisor. No patients are operated upon following a recent illness and no female patient is operated upon five days prior to or during menstruation...