NASO-PHARYNGEAL ADENOIDS AS A CAUSATIVE FACTOR IN EAR DISEASES.

Among the most interesting cases that come before the otologist are those pertaining to postnasal vegetation affecting the hearing, and there are few patients to whom more satisfaction can be rendered than to those so affected. Adenoid vegetation seems not to be restricted to countries, to climates, to sex, to color or race of man. Dr. William Meyer gives the results of his collected evidence of the existence of affections of adenoid growths in various parts of the world, and in various races of man. He says that in Greenland, in 60 Esquimaux children between 6 and 14 years of age Helms only found 16 free from adenoid vegetation. In North Dakota Quarry found adenoid vegetations frequent among the native tribes of Indians, but the growths were very little developed in adults. Cantley of Hongkong reported that native Chinese of the Mongolian race, as also those belonging to the mixed