Excerpt from Hypertrophy of the Pharyngeal of Luschka's Tonsil: Read in the Section of Laryngology and Otology at the Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Held at San Francisco, June 5-8, 1894The affection nearly always develops in infancy or early childhood. From the ages of the patients re corded, it appears that the disease is most frequent in children between the ages of 2 and 15, 54 per cent. Being observed between the second and eighth year and 87 per cent. Between the ninth and six teenth. But the affection is also seen in Older per sons. Seven cases were found between the ages of 18 and 25, and one each at the ages of 26 and 87 respectively. These results differ widely from Mey er's, who observed less than 87 per cent. Under 10 years of age, and less than 62 per cent. All told under 15. They differ even more widely from Bosworth's statistics which show less than 80 per cent. Under 15 years of age. The difference is probably to be ex plained by the fact that I have ignored cases in which the growth had not attained sufficient size to cause the patient inconvenience, or had atrophied to such an extent as to have become unimportant.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.