By: Tessa Lena
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Today, the tonsils are known to play an important role in our immune response
For a long time, the scientific consensus was that they were “useless” organs, and doctors routinely recommended tonsil surgeries just in case
It is estimated that in 1959, 1,400,000 tonsil surgeries were performed in the United States
Once a very c…
