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The Treatment of Enlarged or Diseased Tonsils in Cases where Surgical Procedures are Contra-Indicated1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2007

Irwin Moore
Affiliation:
Surgeon to the Throat Hospital, Golden Square, London, W

Abstract

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Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1919

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Footnotes

1

Paper read at the Summer Congress of the Laryngological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, May 2, 1919.

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