THE 74826 CHICAGO MEDICAL RECORDER. VOL. IV. JANUARY-JUNE, 1893. CHICAGO THE MEDICAL RECORDER PUB. CO. 805 PULLMAN BUILDING. List of Contributors. Dr. EDMUND Andrews, Dr. JAMES H. ETHERIDGE, Dr. CHARLES WARRINGTON EARL, Dr. JUNIUS C. HOAG, Dr. F. C. HOTZ, Dr. J. REEVES JACKSON, Dr. HAROLD N. MOYER, Dr. JOHN A. ROBISON, Dr. ARTHUR R. REYNOLDS, Dr. FREDERICK C. SCHAEFER, Dr. FRANK H. STAHL, Dr. HENRY VAN BUREN. THE CHICAGO MEDICAL SOCIETY. THE MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETY OF CHICAGO. THE COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL CLINICAL SOCIETY. THE SCANDINAVIAN MEDICAL SOCIETY OF CHICAGO. THE CHICAGO GYNECOLOGICAL SOCIETY. THE CHICAGO PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. THE OPHTHALMOLOGICAL AND OTOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CHICAGO. THE CHICAGO MEDICAL RECORDER JANUARY, 1893. Original Articles. ABSCISSION OF THE TONSIL; ITS DANGERS, NECES- BY W. E. CASSELBERRY, M. D. PROFESSOR OF THERAPEUTICS AND OF LARYNGOLOGY AND RHINOLOGY IN THE MEDICAL SCHOOL. OF THE NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, CHICAGO MEDICAL COLLEGE; LARYNGOLOGIST TO WESLEY HOSPITAL; ETC. Any new phase of an operation as common as tonsilotomy justifies our attention, for only so can ultimate perfection be attained, and especially so, as long as want of adjustment of a single unfortunate detail still renders a fatal issue from this trivial procedure even remotely possible. Having to report three cases wherein life was jeopardized by hemorrhage following tonsilotomy, and one other case, from the practice of a personal friend, in which death actually resulted from the same cause, I am induced to supplement previous literature on this subject by an attempt to indicate safer methods of operating and more efficient means of controlling hemorrhage. Bosworth, in his treatise of 1892, thinks it fairly well established that, while hemorrhage may be an exceedingly troublesome accident, it is not a complication which is dangerous to life and he knows of no well-authenticated case of death therefrom. Delevan' states that, for many years he has made diligent search both by reading and inquiry among the leading authorities of the day in Read before the Chicago Medical Society, Dec. 5, 1892. |