IS MASTOIDECTOMY NECESSARY IN YOUNG CHILDREN?

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Information instilled during childhood generally persists through life, often to the very end. In tender years, children absorb practically everything that comes within their ken, accepting most of it as fact. Later in life, people have grown so accustomed to the notions thus acquired that they are not in the habit of stopping to question them. They have been present so long that they have become part of the personality. It is thus that prejudices are acquired—yea, the worst prejudices, many of which are never discarded, but are fondly hugged and carried to the grave. The situation of the young physician is somewhat analogous to this for, without any desire to attempt to belittle the medical student whose mind is often both keen and brilliant, the fact remains that medically speaking he is in the childhood stage, in which he saturates himself with knowledge galore, much of

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