What Relation, if any, have the Faucial Tonsils to Pulmonary Tuberculosis?

In 1878 Cohnheim suggested that tuberculosis of the cervical lymph-nodes might be the result of primary tuberculosis in the buccal or pharyngeal mucosa or tonsils. In 1879 Orth in some feeding experiments with guinea-pigs produced tuberculosis in the cervical lymphnodes, and in one instance in the tonsils. Baumgarten con firmed these results in 1884. Cornil and Ranvier the same year described the lesions in tuberculous tonsils in their manual of pathologic histology, and Strassmann the same year mentions the frequency of tonsillar tuberculosis in phthisical patients (thirteen in twenty-one cases). This seems to have been the beginning of the special literature on this subject. In 1885 Abraham wrote on tubercle of the tonsil and in 1891 Dmochowski concluded that tuberculous deposits in the faucial and lingual tonsils often resulted from auto-infection. In 1892 Conoreur described the probable relation of tuberculosis of the tonsils to the same disease in the cervical