Oswald's height as given in PS 44 records

[Greg R Parker]

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

Well, he knew more than you did, Mr Cut-throat. But still no Kewpie doll. He is describing a MODERN day operation.

Here is what was done with Oswald:

There was a period of time when the method used to remove the tonsils made it more likely for them to grow back. This method, which involved leaving the outer portion of the tonsils intact in order to reduce pain and decrease the risk of bleeding, is no longer used. http://ent.about.com/od/entdisorderssu/f...ectomy.htm