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a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 301 Letynge blood in þe tunge is good for þe squinacie, & for enpostyms, þat ben as it were almaundis, & for brancis.

1565 J. Hall Anat. 3rd Treat. i. 55 (heading) in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. Of the throte and the contentes thereof, as the wynde pype, and the epiglot, the uvula, and almondes of the throte.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxxi. 120 Ulcers of the aulmondes or kernels of the throte.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 646 Goates milk..gargarized in the mouth, is very effectual against the paines and swellings of the Almondes.

1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iv. 119 The Almonds of her Jaws began to swell.

1709 Philos. Trans. 1708–09 (Royal Soc.) 26 318 A pain on the left side about the Almonds of the Ear.

1792 J. Curry Pop. Observ. Apparent Death from Drowning 47 Then taking the Canula, or curved silver tube..in his right hand, let him direct the flat point of it along this finger, towards the left almond of the ear, and between that and the side of the tongue.

1836 Friend 9 58/1 In the interval between the curtain and the posterior arch, on each side, are placed the tonsils, vulgarly called the ‘almonds of the ear’.

1886 W. Beach Amer. Pract. Condensed 340 When the tonsils, commonly called the almonds of the ear, or the mucus membrane lining the throat, become inflamed, it is termed quinsy.

1902 Assoc. Rev. (Amer. Assoc. to promote Teaching of Speech to Deaf) 4 173 37 lost their hearing through meningitis, 22 through convulsions, 14 typhoid fever, 9 falls, 4 mumps, 4 affection of the glands, 2 bronchitis, 2 scarlet fever, 2 croup, 2 fright, 1 affection of the almonds of the ear [etc.].

1961 H. A. Skinner Origin Med. Terms (ed. 2) 24/2 The palatine tonsil at one time was called ‘the almond of the throat’.

1997 M. Barnette Ladyfingers & Nun's Tummies vi. 168 In his great dictionary of 1755 Samuel Johnson notes that in English tonsils used to be called almonds of the throat.