The Illinois medical journal - v. 10 Author:Illinois State Medical Society Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Illinois Medical Journal THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ILLINOIS STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY Entebed In The Spkingfieui Postoffick As Second-class Matter. Vol. X ... more »Springfield, Ill., September, 1906 No. j ORIGINAL ARTICLES TONSILLECTOMY BY ELECTRO-CAUTERY DISSECTION. Edwin Pynchon, M.D. Professor of Khino-Laryngology and Otology, Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College, Chicago. CHICAGO. "Removal of Tonsillar Hypertrophy by Electro-Cautery Dissection'' is the title under which I originally described this operation, the paper being first published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Nov. 22, 1890.12 The operation was designed and first put in practice at my clinic at the Chicago Postgraduate Medical School in January of that year and, as the results attained were highly satisfactory, 1 continued to employ it in both clinical and private practice, though, as with every original procedure, it has, with time and increased experience, passed through certain evolutionary changes, so that the technique I at present employ is somewhat different from that employed at the start.8 Difficulties were from time to time met, which were successively overcome, particularly by improvement in the instruments and apparatus employed. At first, it being the age of the storage cell, I had to contend with the usual train of troubles which were common with that style of device for furnishing the electro-cautery current. Since adopting the excellent transformer of the Victor Electric Company I have had no further trouble in securing the required volume and amperage of current, so that the cautery points can be heated to the desired degree and continuously maintained thereat. The transition from storage cell to transformer relegated to the past the disagreeable experience of ...« less