The new personal experience made a deep impression upon my friend's mind. He wanted everybody to know how easy it was to overlook a child's distress. One person after another had a story to tell him; even the janitor said: "You'd ought to have seen our John at sixteen. He spent a week by the hospital." The only people who do not seem to know more than the new convert are the mouth breathers whom he religiously stops on the street.
The indexes to adenoids and large tonsils for the teacher to read at school are:
1. Inability to breathe through the nose.
2. A chronically running nose, accompanied by frequent nose-bleeds and a cough to clear the throat.
3. Stuffy speech and delayed learning to talk. "Common" is pronounced "cobbéd"; "nose," "dose"; and "song," "sogg."
4. A narrow upper jaw and irregular crowding of the teeth.
5. Deafness.
6. Chorea or nervousness.
7. Inflamed eyes and conjunctivitis.
The adenoids and large tonsils discovered at school are an index: