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Updated: May 5, 2025
To attempt to stop mouth-breathing before providing abundant air-space through the nostrils is not only irrational, but cruel. Of course, after the child has once become a mouth-breather, even after the nostrils have been made perfectly free, it will not at once abandon its habit of months or years, and disciplinary measures of some sort may then be needed for a time.
An instance is related in which small-pox became epidemic on a man-of-war in foreign parts, and every death which resulted was that of some sailor or marine who was a mouth-breather, not a single nostril-breather succumbing. The organs of respiration have their only protective apparatus, filter, or dust-catcher, in the nostrils.
Seal the nostrils and you can't "tell chalk from cheese," not even a cube of apple from a cube of onion, as scores of experiments have shown. We all know how flat tea, coffee, and even our own favorite dishes taste when we have a bad cold, and this, remember, is the permanent condition of the palate of the poor little mouth-breather.
No child ever became a mouth-breather from choice, or until after a prolonged struggle to continue breathing through its nose. This brings us to the question, What are these adenoids, and how do they come to produce such serious disturbances? This can be partially answered by saying that they are tonsils and with all a tonsil's susceptibility to irritation and inflammation.
We have come to realize that physical bad habits, as well as many mental and moral ones, have a definite physical cause, and that no child ever becomes a mouth-breather as long as he can breathe comfortably through his nose. This clears the ground at once of a considerable amount of useless lumber in the shape of advice to train the child to keep his mouth shut.
A very simple and harmless scraping operation will remove these adenoids entirely, and what a wonderful improvement the mouth-breather will make! He will often catch up two grades, and gain two inches in height and ten pounds in weight within a year. The Tongue is not Used chiefly for Tasting.
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