| Show ALLEN ON APPENDICITIS Well 1 Writes of at It and anil Of Ot UK the TUM Cn of ltd Hn W nn The Tho D Deseret News Is In I In receipt of a communication from Dr Ur Samuel H II HAllen Allen In which that gentleman writes on anti and how ho It may bo avoided In ii It i very varY great Areat many Instances and of ot th the caso of ot Hay Hn Williamson In particular During the week tho local newspapers contained nn an account of ot Ills his deafen made mado tho thin statement that lint he und land begirt been ill at nt the tho I D S hospital with tilh appendicitis Ho lie was at III this Institution tamo somo time but bul Dr Al AI Allen AIlen Allen len st says 1111 s IID hn did not lot have hava appendicitis upon the tho case ho he says Here nr aro arb the facts I J sent this man manto to the hospital ono one week before ha ho I died with severe sevein abdominal I pale pain towel fert 10 I and great prostration supposed to 11 bo be due duo to 10 Inflammation of or ortho j tho liver II 1 r gall bladder ller stomach and possibly appendix After three days of ot rest mad keeping I e his hlA stomach havo KIVO a II water his 1119 lain loft left anti and his fever subsided After this his good ROOI ap liP appetite petite seemed to bo be hits his worst trouble Against his hl wishes and tho wishes of nt his family ho was kept nt III tho thu hospital four dos days longer ns nR It appeared to all 1111 tho mho man Was awns well Ho lie went home hom Monday pad and ld on arriving there tJ re was WM seized with willI terrible distress In lu his hili chest ch t mutts and Bled In a n few tew minutes It being b such nuch n a strange case the tho like of fit which J I had n H se n 1 I asked his hl wire and 1111 to allow mo me to mako a n post lO t mortem examination to find the tune valise cause of ot death rh y yare I are ore very yen Intelligent people anti readily agreed to 10 this I 1 examined 1 the I liver gall Call bladder stomach appendix kidneys spleen fiven and pancreas but Jut still found tI no Chase of ol the fearfully sudden death deth of oC this big bl apparently well man manI I next examined tho the lungs and amid found then them but on opening the heart h arl found the of death It was Willi a II large firM blood clot plugging plu com coin completely completely th the tho blood vessel which leads from tho the right chamber of the heart Into the tho The liver gall bladder and II nIl showed evidences hlene of ol In due to drinking liquor Now train from this a 0 clot had ha formed In III one I ne lit of f the tho th large larca lar e lead Iud r clot Ins hag to the tho heart hear This Thin clot pad Irad loos loosened erred ened und on Into the thu heart and caused the sudden sadden depth death very mien man owes some same dOly 11 ty to the age and community In ho he lives I 1 deem It my duty duly to 10 allay as much h fear as all possible Your Ap Appendicitis J f fens n anti and ter ler terror terror Into himo the hearts of ot ninny many mun I want to strike that fear out night because tills this t well known man did not nM tie duo front from appendicitis lie He was not eyen en oper oler operated uteri rated on at ut the L I D S hospital ho Mr Editor 1 If you yon could no go till tiny ilay with the three thrle hundred hun red mud and fifty thousand American physicians on Peir daily rounds round A the sick and ami If It you ou could see sae the anxious often otten frightened I relatives walling with bated tin un til the doctor makes his hie deI lon It Il IH is IHnot not and hear tilt tHc fervent lelet thank God Hod you jou OU would use your pen every tiny day to strike lend dead terrible monster tear fear of ot appendicitis I want hero to 10 repeat what I said two to months ago aco about appendicitis The best hest treatment of this disease islo Is to pre prevent prevent vent It Drink from three to ta six gross glass glasses grossen es en of or cool boiled holler a Ihl tiny eat a it proper amount of well cooped norg food tood chewing It II v Ory r thoroughly thor ou Eat Ent meat very ly Take plenty of ot brown broAd bread br lrI fruit grains nuts vegetables milk mill e eggs Ks and fish Oh leaving tobacco and ho In eluding tea anti and coffee alone Thin plan will keep tho the bowels r regular KUlar and idyl prevent hundreds r rt It t cases cakes of ot appendicitis every I e 0 year Car Mr Far ft n well developed case of ot nn an op properly done dOlle In the first 49 48 hours will save sae about 98 93 8 out oUI of or every elery cases casesI I will repent repeat again when the till first symptoms of ot appendicitis come cOllie on right sided pain tenderness and rigidity rl of or the muscles mU vomit lag Ing and amid fever with right lei leg le drawn up lIP the proper thins thing to 10 do dots Is to keep keell the stomach en entirely empty empt no llo food no fie water ater tt no medicine Alter After 24 hours sips of ot vii WIl water WIlter ter ler are allowed The Thc who gives AIes nn an opiate at 01 this stage tage makes make a 1 grove grave error he puts pats out the signal lights of or nature which show the tho train trained trained ed physician the exact condition of the tha sufferer To give morphine or nay opiate deadens tho the pain masks maiks the tho symptoms and often orten carries carrle the tho patient along In a state of ot false security over oler Into such a n dangerous condition that In spite of ot the best beet kill skill In lit 11 the world the case will prove fatal no matter u hat Is done clone The Tho doctor should see sen the tho case In the th first 24 21 hours and decide what Is II be best t tto to be done clone If It you jou are not going to call a II physician keep ke p the stomach empty for far nearly a n week give Rive r through the syringe and ami allow n a few tew sips Hips by lIy mouth If the stomach will re retain reo tain It II but not otherwise Give GIo no WI physic until after the tho third diy day dl and then only use uRethe the syringe keeping the physic away until the pain lain and tenderness tender tenderness ness are gone gene SAMUEL II IL ALLEN AlLIN |
