Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils: Their Effect on General Intelligence

THEIR EFFECT ON GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
MARGARET COBB ROGERS, Ph.D.
ARCHIVES OF PSYCHOLOGY
Edited by R. S. WOODWORTH
No. 50
Columbia University Contributions to Philosophy and Psychology
NEW YORK
April, 1922
AGENTS: G. E. STECHERT & CO.: London: (2 Star Yard Carey St., W. C.);
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During the last decade or two there has been a growing interest among physicians in defects of the nose and throat. This interest has centered in part upon those two afflictions of childhood—adenoids and diseased tonsils,—or even tonsils that are merely enlarged. There is no doubt of the physical handicap borne by a child who is possessed of them. As a seat of inflammation, a source of infection, a hindrance to proper breathing,—in a multitude of ways they have seemed to deserve the verdict,— Have them out. Many physicians, to be sure, have cautioned against the wholesale removal of tonsils, saying that tonsils which are large in early childhood very commonly are absorbed at an early age.