Excerpt from Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, 1891 The subject was left, however, to be exhaustingly studied both from a clinical and atomical point of view, by Wilhelm Meyer, of Copenhagen, in 1868. SO thoroughly did he investi gate the 102 cases on whom he Operated, that little of much value has been added to his work. Hypertrophy of the pharyngeal tonsil is essentially a disease of early life, only a very small percentage occurring after the thirtieth year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.