Note 26 — HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORTING EVIDENCE (continued 2)

A further aid to the circulation in the naso-pharynx is afforded by the lusty use of the voice. It a natural for the young human to cry and to shout, and unless this instinct is allowed full play the child is apt to suffer in health. I cannot but think that the modern child is too much repressed in this respect, and that he is not afforded, especially in towns, proper opportunity of venting his vocal energy in out-door play. May we not have here a contributory factor in the causation of adenoids?