The late great Dr. Frank Billings of Chicago persuaded the doctors of the world that focal infections were often the cause of systemic diseases like rheumatism, arthritis, heart disease, kidney disease. Immediately there followed a great wave of tooth-pulling, tonsil-snaring, adenoid-raking, sinus-reaming. The tide, however, had turned before Dr. Billings died two years ago, and last week was in full retreat as the American Academy of Ophthalmology & Otolaryngology met in Chicago.
Dr. Albert David Kaiser, professor of pediatrics at the University of Rochester, went so far as to state, with the censoring approval...
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