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Wearing glasses, even against the wishes of the child, may be equally necessary—
so also is the necessity, when advised, of wearing a disc in front of one eye in order
to constrain the other eye to its proper amount of work.
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Not much progress can be made at
any one sitting. It must be very tiresome
for a child to attend again and again to
get this treatment, but having regard to
the fact that benefits can only be achieved
between certain ages it is necessary to
attend continuously; any sessions lost
are, as it were, gone for ever.
Orthoptic Clinic
Number of children attended
81
Number of new cases
55
Number of old cases
26
Number of attendances
416
Number discharged cured
—
Number discontinued
1
Number of sessions
76
TREATMENT OF DEFECTS OF EAR, NOSE AND THROAT.
Question:—What is done, so far as the ear, nose and throat are
concerned, besides hacking children's tonsils out ?
Answer:—This question, like so many others to which I have addressed
myself, is one which has actually been put to me by a member of the public.
It is a curious thing that once you have "given a dog a bad name you may as
well hang him" and, of course, it is true that forty and fifty years ago an operation
for tonsils and adenoids was looked upon as a very minor operation, properly
undertaken by a very junior surgeon, but this is not true today. Indeed, an
operation for tonsils for anybody getting on in life must be regarded (and is regarded)
as an operation of a major nature,