The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-11
PASSING OF THE ADENoID oBsEssloo

| Ten or fifteen years ago queries about the re- moval of adenoids were fairly frequent Such queries are now quite rare. From this gath
 CT that teachers, nurses and other dilettantes
 are not so keen about the game of guessing the
 lchild has adenoids if he looks or seems dumb.
 lFQrmerly this was one of the favorite indoor
 lpastimes Of the little tin doctors. School
 Iboards everywhere are made up chiefly of hard
 Iheaded business men and wonnen--hard- -head- led and conceited. As rule they are just as ignorant about everything pertaining to health feducati0n and the training of the body are
 most laymen. Perhaps that Is why they assign l to teachers and nurses certain functions which are really medical Clearly this is a saving of
 the taxpayers money, for a teacher or nurse
 can be hired for lower wage than you would
 have to pay a doctor, and chances are the
 child's parents won't notice anything fishy labout the quackery. If this school board spon-
 sored quackery is going out of fashion it is be-
 cause the practice is too ridiculous to withstand criticism n0wadays.S | The adenoid body. otherwise called the phar- yngeal tonsil, is a normal structure of the same character as the tonsils, stua$ed on the vault of the throat cavity up behind the soft palate So far as we know it serves the same purpose
 as the tonsils do. that is. the defense of the body against germ lnvaslons. Nowadays we do not condemn a child's ton- tils merely because they are enlarged. We know that in health child's tonsils are naturally large, and that with the usual infections that
 occur in childhood the size of the tonsils varies considerably from season to season. For instance. health officer examined all the pupils in a small school and noted enlarged tonsils and adenoids in large number of them So many seemed to have enfargements that the
 doctor decided to postpone his recommendation watch the children. The youngsters seemed of tonsil and adeneid operation for while and | husky enough. At the end of the school
 year he again examined all the pupils. With one or two exceptions they aI had small tonsils
 now. The doctor concluded that season or weather has something to do with it. Certainly sunshine has. The more sunlight on naked skin the more Vitamin A the body re-
 ceives, and this fortifies against infections and prevents overgrowth or hypertrophy of tonsil
 and adenoid tissues. Ultraviolet light from ar- tifcial source has a similar influence, though direct sunlight is far richer in the ultraviolet rays even in midwinter.
 If the tonsils or the adenoid body be badly damaged by infection, and possibly base or depot from which germs can make raids on other organs of the body, then the defensive
 role or purpose of the tonsils and adenoids is
 no longer consideration; they have become a menace to health and had better be removed or at any rate disinfected.
 It Is a mistake to assume child requires adenoid removal just because the child has dull expression or breathes through the mouth or reminds teacher or nurse of a picture of the
 adenoid face" she once saw in some quack book. This tin doctor diagnosis has brought too many children to an unwarranted opera
 ton. What, the bell? verify believe the cen
 sor invented this system, for the bell always rings just as am about to say something. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS White Coats Cleaned
 I have white coat on the back of my
 tongue. So far as know my breath Is without Odor. What would be good for this? (B. K.) Answer-Sometimes such a coating imparts
 an unpleasant odor to the breath. Without knowing your condition or habits I can only suggest that you should eat more fresh fruit
 any kind of fresh fruit. particularly sour fruits as first course of breakfast and as salad or
 dessert with other meals, and as between
 meals or bedtime snacks
 Ten Cents Chance
 Debt of gratitude for your advice . was
 making wreck of myself with increasingly
 harsh physics every night and constant worry
 about my bowel action have not used
 phys.c or any other aid since last March, and
 best Of all. (P. E.)
 Answer-Glad to send the same advice and instruction to any reader who writes, 1ncloses a dime (coin) and a stamped envelope bearing his address, and tells me he has the constipa-
 ton habit. Remember, am not offering a cure for anything.
 Goats Mink
 Some one told you goats milk has no cream We have had 20 milk goats for four years Two give milk on which cream rises at . cool tenn peration, and we have churncd this cream into butter, white, but as good as any COW butter As for gOnt meat, prefer 1t to beef because 1t is free from tuberculosis and tastes the same as beef. (Afrs R. R.)
 Answer-Thank you. Lucky youngsters to have goats milk. More people in suburban sec- tions and small towns should keep goat for the milk