Diseased Tonsils and Heart Disease

Abstract

The ravages of rheumatic heart disease deserve our close attention in London, and wvherever there seens to be any ray of light that direction is worth exploring." This sentence from the concluding paragraph of Dr. Poynton's admirable lecture on the prevention of heart disease (Ju,ine 2nd, p. 919) encourages me to remark that light may, perhaps, be found in the unpromising atmosphere of this rather grimy city, for it is now nearly two years since he Birmingham Education Committee, on my advice, began an experiment to this end whiclh has proved, I think, successful.