An Improved Method of Using the Tonsil Guillotine

operations are now distinguished, viz., tonsillotomy, in which only a slice of the enlarged tonsil is removed, and tonsillectomy, in which the whole tonsil is removed with its capsule intact. The former operation is carried out with a guillotine, the latter by dissection. The merits or demerits of the rival operations I do not propose to discuss. To those interested in the question, both sides of the question will be found fully set out in the papers of Drs. Hett and Mackenzie read at the British Medical Association Meeting in 1910. It is sufficient to state that, in America and in the leading hospitals at home, tonsillectomy is coming