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Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils - Margaret Cobb Rogers
Margaret Cobb Rogers
Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils: Their Effect on General Intelligence
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER I.
PREVIOUS LITERATURE
Concerning the Relation of Nose and Throat Defects to Intelligence
3304 Children, 10-14 years, grades 1-8
TABLE A
Table showing where improvement begins.
TABLE B
Table showing how time of improvement of operated cases
compares with improvement among children at random.
CHAPTER II.
METHOD AND PROCEDURE
A Statistical Study
A Study of Improvement After Treatment
Selection of Cases
The Tests
CHAPTER III.
DISCUSSION OF THE RESULTS
Statistical Study
TABLE I
STUDY OF IMPROVEMENT AFTER OPERATION
TABLE II. RESULTS OF TESTS
TABLE II. RESULTS (Continued)
TABLE III
Gain in weight, 6 months, 21 pairs
TABLE IV
Gain in Height—6 Months, 19 Pairs
TABLE V
Showing change in per cent over or underweight for height and age, 18 pairs.
TABLE VI
Gain in Grip—6 Months— 16 Pairs
TABLE VII
Gain in number of taps in one-half minute, 21 pairs—right hand
TABLE VIII
Decrease in fatigue in tapping—Difference in rates of second half minute over first half minute. Sixteen pairs
TABLE IX
Improvement in I.Q., 28 Pairs
TABLE X
Improvement in Performance of Healy Test, 24 Pairs
TABLE XI
Showing percentile ratings of the members of the two groups at the beginning and end of the six months' interval
TABLE XI (Continued)
Showing percentile ratings of the two groups at the beginning and end of the six months' interval
TABLE XII
Showing gains in percentile rating for I.Q., and for a total of all the tests with I.Q. weighted by being counted twice.
TABLE XIII
Showing improvement in various tests of operative group over and above such improvement in control group. Expressed in Terms of P. E.
CHAPTER IV
MEASUREMENT OF IMPROVEMENT AFTER A SECOND INTERVAL OF SIX MONTHS
TABLE XIV
Results of the Tests after an Interval of from 10 to 17 Months
TABLE XV
Weight, Second Retests, 15 Pairs
TABLE XVI
Height, Second Retests, 13 Pairs
TABLE XVII
Height-Weight Relationship, Second Retests, 13 Pairs Showing changes in per cent over or underweight after 12 months' interval
TABLE XVIII
Gain in Grip, Second Retest, 13 Pairs
TABLE XIX
Tapping—Second Retest, 15 Pairs
TABLE XX
Tapping for Fatigue, Second Retests, 11 Pairs
TABLE XXI
I.Q., Second Retests, 21 Pairs
TABLE XXII
Healy A, Second Retests, 18 Pairs
TABLE XXIII
TABLE XXIII (Continued)
CHAPTER V.
SUMMARY.
CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER I.
Table of Contents
PREVIOUS LITERATURE
Concerning the Relation of Nose and Throat Defects to Intelligence
Table of Contents
There are very few experimental studies of the relation between intelligence and the two defects considered here. There are a few statistical studies, and among earlier writers especially many statements of opinion on the matter. Characteristic of the latter is the following extract from an article in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, March, 1886.[1]
... it is a fact that their intelligence may become weakened and their characters changed. They do not progress in their studies at school, are generally at the bottom of the class and remain in it longer than the prescribed time.... That the impairment of intellect and want of energy manifested by these children is real, and not merely in the expression of countenance, is made evident by watching these same children after the growths have been removed. To the gratification and astonishment of the parents and teachers, the children hitherto sluggish and dull of comprehension, now make rapid progress, and their comrades soon cease to make a laughing stock of them.
The following quotation from an article by Irving Townsend, M. D., is in the same vein:[2]
Aprosexia is the rather imposing term applied to the imperfect or arrested mental development attributed to this condition. This is denied by some authors, who claim that the dullness of comprehension and inattention are only apparent, and due only to defective hearing. A strong evidence of its reality lies in the fact that these children show most marvelous intellectual development after the removal of the growth, even in cases where deafness is not markedly improved.
A most enthusiastic denouncer of adenoids and abnormal tonsils is H. Addington Bruce. Concerning their direful effects upon the intelligence, and the magical results of their removal, he is continually reiterating:[3]
Often a surprising development of both mental and physical power follows the removal of adenoids. In one case reported by Professor Swift, a girl of fourteen grew three inches within six months after an operation for adenoids, and at the same time showed an improvement in her school work that contrasted strikingly with the dullness that preceded it. Another, three years younger, grew six inches in about five months, and from being a sad idler was transformed into an unexpectedly attractive and bright pupil. A boy of twelve, backward both mentally and physically, likewise lost his dullness and laziness within an astonishingly short time after the impediment had been removed.
And again:
"The boy or girl suffering from adenoids[4] is usually a mouth-breather because of the difficulty experienced in breathing through the nose. But mouth-breathing means difficult breathing, and this in turn means deficient oxidation of the tissues, with a resultant lowering of vital activities generally and of the activity of the brain in particular. Accordingly, the psychologist of today insists that every adenoid-afflicted child should be given prompt medical attention, with a view to correcting the vicious mouth-breathing habit, and thus aiding the child to gain a fair start in the development of mental and physical health."
The following extracts are quoted from Burgerstein's Handbuch der Schulhygiene
:
Bresgen und Heymann machen endlich darauf aufmerksam, dass die Ursache der Kephalalgie haufig in der Behinderung der Nasenatmung zu suchen ist, als Folgerscheinung von Verengerung der Nase bei ingen Baue des Knochengerustes, Knochenkaries und Geschwulsten, Schwelungen der Scheimhaute, akuten Schnupfen, Verstofungen der Highmorshöhle, Vergrosserung der Mandeln u. s. w.
...
"Viele Kinder erscheinen schwachbegabt, ohne os zu sein, da bei denselben entweder nach behebung von Ohrenkrankheiten, nach Herstellung der freien atmung oder Gebrauch einer entsprechenden Brille die scheinbare Geistesschwache schwindet."[5]
Quotations like these, and equally unsupported by experimental evidence, might be multiplied indefinitely, especially if we look into the literature of a dozen years ago. Since they can have little authoritative value, I shall limit myself to two more specimens, one taken from the Psychological Clinic, 1916.[6]
"But when these physical defects (poor eyesight, defective hearing, adenoids, bad tonsils, etc.) are corrected so that the mind can function without any outcry from the physical body,