Another medical fad in the 50's/ 60's was to surgically whip out kids tonsils at the drop of a hat if they got inflamed.
But what the medical clowns didn't realise that tonsils were simply doing their job by fighting various infections and getting inflamed by the battle..
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Later after they'd won the fight, the inflammation disappeared.
Eventually the penny dropped with the medics, so they phased out unnecessary tonsil operations..
WIKI-
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