Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-03

1l1oO ACttvtttoo follow lines or least
resistance. Energy ambition, noble
impulse and high ideals All succumb to
pain and III health and are frequently
usurped by ignorance. idleness and
crime. Inability to comfortably appfS
themselves drives multitudes Of chill
dren from school and thus reduces the
intellectual and moral index OF COM
munal and national life. A
S4atistics of school children In large
cities indicate that from 20 to 30 per
cent suffer from adenotds. Dxamina-
ton Of l3,46s Of Chicago's school chill
dren showed l.32s, or - per cent, af-
flicted with these growths. Parents and
teachers should. therefore be able to
recognize them and to appreciate their
far reaching and malign influence over
health and hearing.
The Adenoid. What 10 III
The adenoid is a tonsil (Luschkas)
and is common to birth. 1t is called
adenoid to designate a special form OF
easily inflamed and readily diseased
tissue. 1t is situated posterior to the
nasal passages and the hard palate and
lies in the direct pathway Of the
Respiratory current thru the nose. Like
other tonsils its primary mission is to
protect the system during the first
three years of life from entrance of
micro organisms. 1t absorbs them from
the respiratory current and destroys
them, but should this gland become
diseased. and it's function interfered
with 1t becomes as do the other tonsils
a menace to health and life. by admit
ting into the great blood streams OF the
system the very germs 1t was purposed
to shut out II during these first three
years these glands do not become dis
eased they usually shrink and disap-
pear, thus explaining their presence In
some an dtheir absence in others.
Why Present in Many Adults.
The nasal glands called turbinals are
three III number. They average one
half inch in width by one and one-half
in length In each nasal passage. They
supply mucous for moistening. temper
ing and sterilizng Of the inspired air.
The tonsils, the adenoids and these
nasal glands are composed almost
wholly of adenoid tissue and together
form what is called Wall Dyer's adenoid
ring. Sections of this ring are seldom
diseased alone. that is to say; chroni-
cate the presence Of adenoids and with
adenoids, generally are seen the en-
iaT5ea hasa! glands. DR.. Diemont of
Paris, says that adenoids cause en-
gorgement and chronic enlargement OF
the turbinals and that the latter should
be treated in conjunction with the
former. These structures are especial
~ sensitive to feverish conditions OK
the general system. 20 that during the
eruptive fevers and contagious diseases
of childhood they usually inhame and
increase in size.
In the Reference Hand Book OF the
Medical Sciences. page s23. volume
VIII. it Is stated that when once en-
larged they never entirely subside.
Therefore they usually make their first
following one of the nu-
merous affections Incident to this per-
iod. altho a few children are born with
them already so enlarged as to require
their removal before nourishment can
be comfortably taken. II the child es-
capes all diseases OF early life it is not
liable to have either enlarged tonsils
or. adenoids later. but not 10 per cent
OF children do escape hence their pres
ence In SO many adults.
The Large Adsnoid.
The large adenoid betrays Itself. It
produces the pronounced nasal tone.
the, ever open mouth. the depressed
nasal openings, the protrusion Of the
upper teeth, the sunken chest from
shallow breathing. because the mouth
breather does not properly employ his
respiratory chest muscles and conse-
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tributed turnout the lungs. This favors
inefficient blood oxygenation and con-
seauent poorly nourished tissues. These
children are pale. anaemic and under
sized, and backward In play and in
study. Their weakened bodily resist
apce renders them liable to infection, es-
pecially tubercular and rheumatic. Re-
current tonsilitis, catarrh. and dis
eases Of the throat and lungs are COM
mon histories Of these cases. The dry.
and unsterilized air. pass
ing thru the mouth naturally enhances
the possibility Of disease Of these parts.
Adsneid Infection Of Middle Ear.
. Infection Of the middle ear IL the
most serious danger threatened by
adenoids. This transpires thru the
tube which drains and
aerates the organ OF hearing. The
mouth Of this tube lies in close prox-
unity to the adenoid and sometimes
is even enveloped by 1t. The adenoid
is always injected because it gathers
from the respiratory air current which
passes over it the most virulent micro
organisms know nto disease. These 1t
and propagates in its saccu-
lated recesses and well tempered Sc
cretions and from there they readily
pass into and infect the middle ear,
causing acute and chronic suppurations
and mastoid disease.
Blake holds these growths response
BILE for SO per cent Of deafness and
Bench and Sohier Bryant of New York,
our two ablest American authorities.
claim so per cent to 80 per cent re-
Professor Politzer OF Vi
enna the best European authority.
states that the adenoid causes from
10 to so per cent of all ear diseases.
Murray in the New York Medical
Journal, Aug. 10, 1911, says that 80 per
cent Of all aural diseases occur by
way OF the eustachian tube thru ade-
mold infection. This L. why running
ears and mastoditis. so frequently fol-
low slagrippe, typhoid, scarlet fever,
etc, or are complications, Of tuber-
culosis and diphtheriA.
During eighteen months OF 1899 and
! 1900 approximately four thousand chill
dren were operated upon for adenoids
at the Central London Ear. Throat and
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