ON BONY GROWTHS INVADING THE TONSIL.

Abstract

The cases which I bring before you are interesting, I think, from the points of view of both the anatomist and the practical surgeon. The first is that of a young lady of excellent personal medical history. Her only complaint had been slight chronic hypertrophic rhinitis, and for a few years some enlargement of the tonsils, especially the right, both of which secreted caseous matter and were at times a little painful. The inferior turbinated bones and the varicose veins of the lingual tonsil had been cauterized by one throat specialist, another had cauterized her right tonsil, and a third had cauterized cysts in both. When tired she frequently complained of pain which she believed originated in the right tonsil and radiated thence to the mastoid and the right nasal bones, as well as to the right eye and shoulder. When squeezing out secretion she could feel a local tenderness