MAKING MEDICAL INSPECTION EFFECTIVE 



No child can do his best work in school if he is suffering 

 from some nose, throat or ear trouble. The commonest con- 

 ditions found in such children are enlarged diseased tonsils, 

 adenoids and deafness. 



The tonsils are glands in the throat, one on each side of 

 the root of the tongue. When they are in a healthy con- 

 dition they are barely visible. They often become much in- 

 flamed and sometimes there is pus present in them. They 

 may obstruct breathing. 



Any child with diseased tonsils is likely to be sickly. 



Any child with diseased tonsils is likely to have many 

 attacks of sore throat, or tonsilitis. 



Any child with diseased tonsils is very susceptible to 

 contagious diseases. 



Any child with diseased tonsils Has A TENDENCY 

 TOWARD CONSUMPTION. 



No child can be well or do his best work in school with 

 diseased tonsils. 



Diseased tonsils should usually be removed and should al- 

 ways be treated. The operation is not dangerous. It al- 

 ways improves the child's health. 



Adenoids are soft spongy growths behind the soft pal- 

 ate, between the nose and throat. A child with adenoids 

 usually breathes with his mouth open. He cannot breathe 

 well through his nose. Mouth breathing is not a habit. If a 

 child breathes with his mouth open it is because there is some 

 obstruction in the nose. 



Adenoids cause a child to sleep with his mouth open. 



Adenoids often cause a child to snore. 



Adenoids nearly always make the teeth come in crooked. 



CROOKED AND PROMINENT TEETH ARE 

 NEARLY ALWAYS CAUSED BY ADENOIDS. 



Adenoids make a child take cold easily. 



Adenoids often give a child a stupid appearance. 



Adenoids often RESULT IN ACTUAL STUPIDITY, 

 because the child cannot get enough air. 



Adenoids often cause ear ache and deafness with some- 

 times a running ear. Catarrh, deafness, ear ache and dis- 

 charge from the ear are more often due to some obstruction 

 in the nose or throat than to anything else. 



Adenoids usually result in delicate health. 



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