New-York tribune., 1910-02-18

given there under the joint auspices Of
the Public Health Educational Committee
Of the County Medical Society and the
City Federation of Women's Clubs. that
DR.. Frank Fielder. Of Bellevue Hospital.
said an operation on the adenoids sounded
like one of the oldtHne patent medicines
"a sure cure for every ailment Of man
Dr. Yankauer surprised the non-rnedicaI
portion Of her audience by explaining that
every one had adenoids. The a4enoid tls-
sue Is a perfectly normal growth back OF
and below the nose, she said Its only
when it gets diseased and swells up that
it is dangerous
"AlI physicians know the 'adenoid face,
the signs Of the diseased adenoids,' she
went on The mouth hanging opens the
nose thin and often crooked, the chin mar
row. the teeth i'll shaped. the complexion
pasty, the eyes blank and dull; compelled
tc breathe through his mouth, the child
doesn't get half enough air in his lungs,
and what he does get is undltered, and
narrow. stopping shoulders and tendency
to all sorts of throat and lung diseases
result
Adenoids may make child naughty. IF
a teacher gees one Of her pupils sticking
pins into the other children. ten to one
it's adenoids. Or it may make him
sleep. DR.. Yenkauer described one small
patient who persistentIy piIlowed his
head on his desk and slept through all
the school sessions. After an operation
on his adenotd tissue he became one Of
the brightest boys in the school
twenty-five per cent Of the school chill
f7ren examined in New York were found
10 have diseased adenoids,'' said Dr.. Yan-
kauer. When people realize what this
trouble means they won't neglect the op-
Grafton, which is the only cure. It's
short operation, and unless the tonsils
also are to be removed an anasthetic isn't
necessary. I prefer 10 do il without [
explain TO the child that it Will hurt,
but only for a minute, and I've seldom
found child who failed to cooperate
with ne intelIIgently and brave1y"
Dr. Robert Cunningham MyIes said a
great obstacle in the way of removing
diseased adenoids was the parents, who
objected to having their children 'cut up"
"One mother told me-" he said, that .the
Lord put tonsiIs and adenqids in my chill
dren, and there those tonsil5 and ade-
noids are going to stay"
Two mothers of this type I was going
TO invite here to-day" said DR.. Fielder,
but concluded it would be of no use. One
of these mothers has an eight-year-oId
girl who is really an invalid-subiect to
colds and all kinds of troubles-hecause of
diseased adenoid tissues. But she's such
a tender mother, No one shall touch my
baby with a knife she says. She's not
too tender to go of and play bridge while
her child is doing all sorts of harmful
things at home, but no one shall touch
my baby.
The mothers in the audience yesterday
were not that sort. The speakers were
pelted with questions. One anxious mother
asked what to do with her boy, who had
had two operations for enlarged adeuoid
and still hreathed through his mouth. Let
us be honest" said Dr.. Wendell c Phil
lips. More than half the operations for
this trouble are only partly done On at
least half the children brought 70 me 10
have the adenoids removed the operation
has been performed-badly performed-be-
fore"
DR.. Phillips and DR.. Myles argued more
strongly Tor an9esthetics in this operation
than lr. 4ankauer. 1T is often a harder
operation than that for mild appendicitis
said Dr Phillips Where possible IL
should be- performed In the chf{d's home
or in a hospital" DIR. Resale Slaughter
Morton presided over the meeting When
every body else had finished talking a
hunted looking woman arose ''Will having
the adencids removed cure a grown per-
son or snoring" she inquired ''or isn't
there any hope for the person who
satisfaction and she went sorrowfully
away.