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b. 1895
Best known for a 1922 study on adenoids, tonsils, and children’s development, this early psychologist wrote at a moment when medicine and education were starting to overlap in new ways. Her surviving work offers a glimpse of how researchers of the era tried to measure the links between health, learning, and everyday school life.
by Margaret Cobb Rogers
Margaret Cobb Rogers was an early 20th-century scholar best known for Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils: Their Effect on General Intelligence, published in 1922. Sources consistently identify her as Margaret Cobb Rogers, Ph.D., and list her birth year as 1895.
Her book appeared in the Archives of Psychology series edited by R. S. Woodworth and focused on whether common childhood throat and nasal conditions affected school performance and mental development. The work sits at the crossroads of psychology, education, and child health, reflecting a period when researchers were increasingly interested in using data and testing to study children’s well-being.
Little biographical information about her seems to be widely available online beyond her authorship of this study. Even so, the book has remained accessible through major digital libraries, and it preserves her place in the history of research on child development and educational psychology.