On Adenoid Vegetations in the Naso-Pharyngeal Cavity: Their Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment

AMONG the permanent defects of speech there is one that claims attention, not only on account of its rather common occurrence-at least, with us in Denmark-but also on account of its frequent coincidence with a very marked defect of hearing.At a superficial glance this condition re- sembles a chronic cold; patients thus affected, being unable to pronounce the nasal sounds m or n, will say " cobbod " instead of " common," " doze" or " loze" instead of " nose," "sogg" for "song," &c.; and, being likewise unable to breathe through the nose, they are compelled to keep the naso.pharyngealcavity, and whenever the peculiar deadness