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PRELIMINARY REPORT

WILLIAM H. ROBEY, M.D.; MAXWELL FINLAND, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1930;45(5):772-782.

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For a number of years the tonsils have been considered by many as an important focus in the persistence of rheumatic infections. It is likewise a well recognized fact among clinicians that acute attacks of rheumatic fever and recurrences of these attacks are frequently ushered in by acute infections of the tonsils. Tonsillectomy is therefore frequently recommended to the sufferers from this disease with the hope of preventing these recurrences. For the same reason we have for a number of years recommended enucleation of the tonsils during the acute attack of rheumatic fever in an attempt to determine whether or not a persistent infection could not be curtailed by removing this focus. We wish here to present briefly some of the results of our experience with this procedure over a period of five years.

In order to evaluate the effect of tonsillectomy as a therapeutic agent in the control of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Second Medical Service, Boston City Hospital, and the Harvard Medical School.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Sept. 19, 1929.

Read before the Section on Practice of Medicine at the Eightieth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Portland, Ore., July 12, 1929.

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