General discussion about cutting out the uvula and tonsils

You should look at how thin and wrinkled the tongue is, mainly in its lower part. If the end is thick and something like pus is oozing from it, this is the best time, and then it should be cut off with iron or cauterizing medicines. As a precaution, first cause a slight relaxation and reduce the overflow of the body with blood or other juices, if any. Cutting when overfilled is dangerous.

If the tongue is long and oblong, like a mouse’s tail, and lies on the tongue, and there is no overflow, redness or blackness, then cutting it is not very dangerous. The tongue is cut out as follows: the tongue is pressed down, the tongue is grabbed with a hook and pulled down. They do not cut out the root, but on the contrary, leaving part of it, because if you bring the cut site closer to the palate, the bleeding will hardly stop. However, one should not cut off too little from the tongue, then the evil will remain the same as it was; on the contrary, it should take away such part of the tongue by which it exceeds its natural dimensions. If the tongue is red and swollen, then cutting it is dangerous: sometimes it starts bleeding, which does not stop completely. Medicines that cut off the uvula include asafoetida and alum; they are constantly placed on the root of the uvula, and they cause the uvula to fall off. One of the means that takes away the tongue by cauterization is ammonia with asafoetida and vitriol. These medicines should be grabbed on the tongue using the mentioned instrument and held for some time without removing them for them to take effect. This should then be repeated until the tongue turns black; when it turns black, it most often falls off after three days. The user must keep his head down and his mouth open so that saliva flows out without lingering in the mouth.

As for the tonsils, they are hooked and pulled out as far as possible without pulling out the membranes along with them; Then, using a cutting instrument, the tonsils are cut out in a circular incision above the root, about a quarter of their length, after first turning the instrument over. They are cut out one after another, having previously taken into account the above-mentioned conditions relating to their color and volume. When what is cut off falls away, a fair amount of blood is allowed to flow out, and the patient lies face down so that the blood does not go into the throat. Then he rinses his mouth with cooled water and vinegar and induces vomiting and coughing in order to clear the inside of the throat, and after that, something hemostatic is placed at the cut site, such as kalkatar, alum and vitriol, and then the patient gargles with a lukewarm decoction blackberries with myrtle leaves.

Dangers of cutting. This includes damage to the voice, as well as the opening of the lungs to cold and heat, so that with any cooling or warming, a cough occurs, and the person cannot endure thirst. Cutting out the tonsils also exposes the stomach to the risk of disorder due to external causes: wind, dust and the like. Many of these people find the temperate air cold; in many the cold becomes so strong in the chest and lungs that they die. Sometimes after cutting there is bleeding that cannot be stopped.

Treatment of bleeding from cutting out the uvula and tonsils. Cups should be placed on the neck and chest and, in order to divert blood, be released from the lower participating vessels, from the axillary vein and the like. As for simple hemostatic ointments and ointments used for this, these are, for example, vitriol, which is used to smear the wound or vitriol is sprinkled on it, as well as medicines that have a cooling effect, such as ice water and the well-known cold astringent squeezed juices, such as squeezed unripe juice grapes, grape stems, rhubarb, nightshade, and sour quince juice.

Something tested, which in this case has special properties, which should be used immediately after cutting, is a medicine, which is testified by one scientist known under the name of Diogenes, namely the medicine Kuhsarak. Squeezed plantain juice also helps if taken with amber pills and seal clay. You should not take any of this hot, no, only really cold, because heat sometimes destroys the effect of the medicine.