Last year at our Section meeting at Denver, during the discussion on the methods of removal of adenoid growths from the vault of the pharynx, I gave my views on the subject at considerable length, but somehow, although referred to in Dr. Mayer's closing remarks, they were not printed at all in the proceedings of our Section, and yet, since that time, I have learned of a number of operators, who, having heard of the discussion, have modified their methods, following in my footsteps. Especially in consequence of this omission, do I desire to present the matter to you in a more formal manner.
These adenoid growths vary considerably in size and consistency, at times occupying the posterior vault only; again the entire central region or extending laterally into the fossæ of Rosenmüller, and even over the Eustachian orifice—in consistency varying from a very soft, spongy, friable mass, to one