The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-30
THEY CHOKE THE USEFUL Or
CANS IN THE DELICATE PAS
SAGEs OF THROAT AND NOSE.
SHOULD BE REMOVED EARLY

AdenOid Is One of Troubles OF Child
hood That Parents Do Not Take
Seriously Enough. They Choke
Rob and DetrOy.
Adenoids growing among the use
full organs and passages OF the nose
ond throat are like weeds in a well
kent garden. They choke, rob and
destroy. So soon as they appear they
should be uprooted.
THE adenoid is one of the troubles
of childhood that parents do not take
seriously enough said a Kansas
CITY surgeon who has clipped the evil
growth from hundreds of little
throats, to the Star. They regard 1t
merely as an annoyance, whereas 1t
is a source of the gravest danger to
the mind as we'll as the body. Mouth
breathing and the consequent vacant
stare are the least of its evil results.
1t has a constant tendency to suppl
rate. and the poisonous discharge
finds its way into the system OF the
child. with the result that its devel-
opment is arrested and its years OF
growth are years of battle with an
enemy as subtle as it is constant in
its evil effects.
Some time, away back in the days
of our fishhood, probably" continued
the surgeon. 1.-The adenoid played
respectable part in the anatomical
structure of the head. But it be-
came obsolete along with the gills
and fins of those days, and the sur
geons are doing all they can to blot
out the remnant.
Like the vermiform appendix, the
tonsils and some other obsolete or
gans, the adenoids are disease traps.
Having little else to do, they prompt
" get into mischief.
Growing ever softer and more
sponge-like as the generations pass,
they become more susceptible to in
f1ammatory causes. A bit of dust, a
cold in the head, a wandering germ,
and suddenly the adenoid declares
itself by enlarging from the size of a
hazlenut to that of a small egg.
Admirably situated to carry out
their mischievous tendencies, the adj
enoid lie far back into the mouth,
close to the real opening Of the nasal
cavities and a very short distance
from the two Eustachian tubes that
lead to the ears. Because of their
strategic position they effect the nose
and the sense of smell, the ears and
the sense of hearing, and the mouth
and the sense of taste. The supra
ton that is sure to accompany their
infiamed condition keeps the sensi-
tive stomach of the child constantly
supplied with substle and devastat-
ing poison. 1t is this slow poisoning
that wastes the tissues, nauseates the
child and keeps him from growing.
"Most frequently adenoid infam-
nation has its beginning in young
children with an attack of snuffies.
A neglected cold in the head or ca
tarrh will often start an enlargement
of the little lobule in a baby not
more than seven months old. Like
the larger tonsils below them, these
smaller ones infame on the slightest
provocation, but their capacity for
harm is far greater than that of their
neighbors, because the swelling OF
the adenoid closes the nostrils. They
interfere constantly with breathing
and digestion.
AT first the effect is merely phys
zeal, but finally the child's power of
attention and even its intelligence are
seriously impaired. Sometimes the
first that is known of the cause of
the open mouth and vacant express
sion is when the child goes to school
and the teacher, on the alert for this
trouble, may recognize the adenoid
face.
"The adenoid is the chief cause
of earache in children. The Sc
erection drains into the ear tubes and
sets up a sympathetic Inflammation
Just where it will hurt the most. AS
soon as the enlargement of the ade-
mold becomes chronic and its effect