Too Many Tonsil Operations?
The unnecessary frequency of tonsil operations on children has been condemned by Dr T. B. Layton, of London, writing in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal.'. “Future generations will, I believe, wonder, and some may laugh, at our propensity to tonsillectomy, just as we do at the bleeding and purging at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the last century,” said Dr Layton. “If parents would say: ‘No, I shall ' not have my child operated on until the epidemic is over (or until the winter is past’), they would find their child none the worse for the delay, and often that it had entirely recQvered from the symptoms for * which the operation was originally advised.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 99, 24 September 1948, Page 4
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124Too Many Tonsil Operations? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 99, 24 September 1948, Page 4
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