Preserving Pennsylvania Hospital's history 'never gets old'
May 07, 2026
May 07, 2026
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 7 -- The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine posted the following news:
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Preserving Pennsylvania Hospital's history 'never gets old'
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A patient with tonsilitis in the 19th century would have to face the tonsil guillotine. The instrument's blade would remove the infected tonsils in a sunlit surgical amphitheater. Some of these procedures were performed before the widesp . . .
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Preserving Pennsylvania Hospital's history 'never gets old'
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A patient with tonsilitis in the 19th century would have to face the tonsil guillotine. The instrument's blade would remove the infected tonsils in a sunlit surgical amphitheater. Some of these procedures were performed before the widesp . . .