Complete Removal of Faucial Tonsils.

Aside from a broader knowledge of detail that results from a repetition of facts, it would be superfluous on this occasion to give an extended discussion of this subject, but, inasmuch as unanimity of opinion does not obtain throughout the profession as to the proper method of treatment of diseased faucial tonsils and the best mode of their removal, and being desirous of presenting a method which has proven satisfactory in my practice, I wish to direct attention to the following facts. Owing to their intermediate position between the mouth and pharynx and their glandular structure, the faucial tonsils frequently become infected and chronically diseased by the passage of food or foreign matter into the ramifying glandular ducts which open on their exposed surface, and after a time their function of pharyngeal lubrication becomes so perverted that the ducts and glands finally become distended and indurated by the retention of