31-03-2014, 04:43 AM
Greg R Parker Wrote:Why would they when those learned gentlemen probably new quite well that tonsils can grow back.
Just because Armstrong was ignorant of that fact, everyone else has to be as well?
From Harvey and Lee, p. 37:
In 1945 a tonsillectomy was as routine an operation as it is
today. It is performed by anaesthetizing the patient, propping the mouth open, depress-
ing the tongue, grasping the tonsils with a tenaculum, and then cutting out the tonsils.
The patient is then allowed to awake naturally from anesthesia. The operation is nearly
100% successful and only in extremely rare cases do tonsils re-appear. If and when ton-
sils do re-appear, they grow only to no more than 10% of their original size-not large
enough to require removal.
JIm