Show APIWOICITIN few years ago the diagnosis or appendicitis produced giver consterna lon and 1 there were very good reasons vhy It should the chief one being tile high mortality attending the disease Jut science has been dealing with Its dllllcultles and dangeis with uch success that the disorder Is fait losing its terrors If thing go on an thy are going now in operation for appendicitis will be mt a trllle more serious than the pullIng pull-Ing of a tooth In a late Issue of the Medical Record New York Is I u paper by Dr A C 13erna ot St Louis In which he gives an account of his experiences and tucccsa In dealing with the affection He begins by saying May 13 ISJB Dr Itobert U Wilson Wil-son became my first usnlstant I Instructed In-structed him to keep an account of my work with Particular reference 10 i my operation i for appendicitis and for pi tubes I felt that In these liMn ItI dll very co I affections I had passed i tile experimental or r thcr develop mntal stage Nhlclt every operator inns items tllloligh go rr as the moth Dol and technique ure concerned I had done to hundred and seventy operations for appendicitis anti made me hundred and eightvllv sections for the moral of pus sacs I bd employed many different methods particularly with regard to the net elllca that were used and rnanj different methilds or drainage hal been tested After about twenty sears ot thlj work r flnaJly arrived nt a method of treatment the results of which I will now report and It has given me a measure of success that I coil scarcely hope to excel In future 9 ties Dr Wilson has been with me I hive operated In eightone I cases of appendicitis anti In all but one of these the appendix or Its stump was removed re-moved Of this series ot eases seven tyon weia done In succession with entirely satisfactory result all patients making a perfect recovery They were all with a single exception acute cae all uIIuraliv or gangrenous some complicated by general perltonU fig In that exceptional case there Woo no tins the appendix being round tn aden a-den manes IIr clicatricial tissues and there was no kind of acute Infectious or febrile disturbance The only Inll callon for the operation uas pain anoi this symptom was completely relieved by I the removal of the offending organ The patient had passed 1 through an attack of acuto appendicitis several earn before she carne 10 me Im so avettio to oiicmtlng upon n febrile patient that I hid sent thl patient to hor home a stance I DC over OliO hllll drcd miles telling her to nut off opera five Interrrence for the < l months In order to Fee whether or not her pain would disappear tinder n regime of diet Una regular Purgation The pain how ever persisted still she mme finally cured by appcndlccctom The snvcntysecond t patient died on bv = the third I day after the operation but lie was In on almost hopeless condition due to delay and other causes when It was undertaken In only two or tile llIhton cno was any foreIgn Ign substance round In the appendix In one oC them here woo a pleco at tolderprobahly swallowed with canned food of some kind 1 and In the other wan a piece of outer elicit It Is I not shown that the disease originated from the foreign substance In cither case and this rcccrd goes fur to disprove that grape seeds etc are the usual causes of the troubleua has been popularly pop-ularly supposed Dr Ucinass describes at length nnd In detail the operation of appcndlcec tomy as performed by him but hit language Is I too idcntlllc and technical for the ordinary newspaper render A record of seventone such Otter atlons without a death shows remarkable remark-able success and that his method Is worthy the attention ot the faculty |