. Electricity in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat . Fig. 138.—Tonsil Electrode. TONSILOTOMY BY ELECTEO-CAUTERY DISSECTION. Dr. Edwin Pynchon, of Chicago, says that theoperation was designed and first put in practice athis clinic at The Post Graduate Medical School ofChicago, in January, 1890, in order that flat and de-generate tonsils could be removed in their entirety. An electric generator is required, whereby thedesired heat of the cautery point can be maintained. 520 ELECTRICITY IN DISEASES OF THE THEOAT. which he has found to be a nearly white heat, whenexposed in the open air. T
. Electricity in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat . Fig. 138.—Tonsil Electrode. TONSILOTOMY BY ELECTEO-CAUTERY DISSECTION. Dr. Edwin Pynchon, of Chicago, says that theoperation was designed and first put in practice athis clinic at The Post Graduate Medical School ofChicago, in January, 1890, in order that flat and de-generate tonsils could be removed in their entirety. An electric generator is required, whereby thedesired heat of the cautery point can be maintained. 520 ELECTRICITY IN DISEASES OF THE THEOAT. which he has found to be a nearly white heat, whenexposed in the open air. The patient anesthetizeshis throat, by swabbing it every minute for twentyminutes with, at first, a ten per cent solution ofcocaine and then a twenty per cent, combined withone-half as much carbolic acid as there is Fig. 139.—Pynchons Tonsil Cautery Electrode. In rare cases, deep injections into the pillarsand base of the tonsils of a one per cent solutionof cocaine, without the carbolic acid, are also used. The tonsil is grasped with spring tonsil forcepsand forcibly lifted from its bed and dissected outin one sitting, which requires from ten to twentyminutes. Pynchon, in an experience of seventeen years,has applied the hemostat only four times; in twocases to check a hemorrhage which had nearlyceased. TUMORS OF THE TONSILS. Sarcoma.—G. B. Massey, of Philadelphia, givesa method of treating malignant tumors by elec-trolysis and zinc-amalgam cataphoresis. After thelocal application of cocaine, two treatments weregiven with two hundred to two hundred and fiftym. a. Later, a small portion of the growth remained,which, after a year, had increased to the size of apeach-stone. The zinc-amalgam bipolar needles werecarried deeply into the base of the growth and the TONSILAK TUMOES. 521 treatment was
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