The Magic Tonsillectomy or Armstrong's Voodoo Science?

[Greg R Parker]

Megathanks to all for examining the topic of Lee Oswald's tonsillectomy in such excruciating detail.

After reading all the posts, I've decided to put the tonsillectomy issue back up on the Harvey and Lee website, but in deference to Greg Parker's Herculean efforts here, I'm going to downgrade the issue from "magic" to... uh... just "fascinating" or something.

And now, surely, it is time to heed the numerous requests from our long-suffering hosts to move on to another topic. Assuming there will be no more insults hurled at Mr. Armstrong below, I'm outta this thread. Thanks again.

Jim

You need to do more than tone down the hyperbole.

You need to actually address the main thing that has come out here. That is that tonsils were not fully removed in 1945, and tonsils keep growing until age 8. Those two things combined made it a great deal more common then than now for tonsils to regrow.