CONCEPT OF "FOCUSED REACTION", WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO TONSILLAR LESION

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A new term of "Focused Reaction" is proposed. The adjective "focal" which is in common use in medical terminology, as in "focal reaction" or "focal infection", is derived from the Latin word "Focus", meaning a fire place or a hearth, and is refered to the point from which light, heat or waves spread. In the term "Focused Reaction" proposed in this paper, "focused" is considered to be the burning point of a lens, i.e., the point where light, heat or waves come together.When an excessive stimulation is given to the skin, tonsils or paranasal sinuses, it brings about circulatory disturbance or vascular damage in distant organs through the route such as skin-to-tonsils, tonsils-to-kindneys etc. For explaining this phenomenon, it seems reasonable to assume that the stimsilation is "focused" on those distant organs (tonsils, heart, or kidneysetc.) producing some pathology in those organs, and this course of event is what is proposed to be called " Focused Reaction "- The site which is generally considered to be the " hearth " of "focal infection" is one of the sources of the stimuli which are to be focused on the target organ.
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