[100 years of modern tonsillectomy]

The author has described a historic progress of tonsillectomy. He has also noticed that in present decade passes 100 years from the first execution of tonsillectomy (in today meaning of that intervention). Observing the development of the technics of tonsillectomy the author came to the conclusion that nowadays palate tonsils are removed in classical way ("dissection Method") or by "guillotine Method".