| Show APPENDICITIS A At AL a n meeting a II short time ago of ot the floyal Medical Society London appendicitis was Will the tho subject of ot a II lively discussion One On of ot the tho speakers Sir Frederick Troves Treves Is III said to have havo removed more moro than 1000 without n a 1 single mingle fatality At n a London hospital the deaths had during the last four years year been only four tour p pHI per percent r cent cont of ot time the cases that had hiatt been operated upon there thero And Anti similar favorable Rill were ere quoted from Irom rein other tam Time The Th Chicago lag Ing on these reports report remarks 8 that some confessions of ot n a distinguished IU Ht St Louis physician nr Dr A C have es en from n a 1 medical Journal anti no cording to these the e confessions consid considerably con sid embly more operations are lito performed than tItan strictly necessary The Tho doctor Is III quoted ns as II having saId lint Hint the time cant organ so often otten Is in found to be ho shamefully normal when out cut out outI He I to admits says tho the that tho the patient gets g t psychical relief toller from Irom tho the operation lint hut ho he that hardened knight of 01 the though he lie Is I he lie h has hal never nover yet ret got over overn overa n a 1 slight feeling of M embarrassment when he pulls up tip the tho normal article e especial ly Iy y In III tho the presence of or students or distin distinguished visitors In one ho hospital ho tells us tie eight normal ap lip appendixes were recently extracted In n a 1 single le day Also Aba Dr Bernays J betrays another professional secret The Tue nor appendix he hll SAC Is iii solemnly given to histologist tho for tor n Tho The histologist solemnly reports that he lie hns has discovered nn nim Infiltration o ot of small round rolls In the tho amid The patient Is thankful he heI hein 1 I in rid rill of ot them nut Hut neither histologist nor tho ho surgeon n ever over remark that sue tuchi Is I always present oven even In inthe tho the most normal article While on this subject U It may cony he 1 o of 01 interest to quote another authority Dr who nho In nn an article In Good I Health maintains that thet experience hue hus shown that about 05 85 per cent of ot nil nl au cases of 01 appendicitis can cnn b bt cured euroll by proper treatment without surgical In Intervention Surgery ho says say Is required ed cd In Iii a n certain proportion of 01 cases anti and andi antia II a i good surgeon should therefore al nl always ways hays be consulted 10 so that time the necessity sity alty for far nn an operation may mil be recognized nt III once Time Tile doctor reminds his hll rend read renders renders ers ore that the gravity of ot the tho disease was wall very tr forcibly brought to the me attention of the world when whon the tho King ICing I Ing of or Great Orent Britain wn was waB compelled to undergo nn mimi operation o for lor appendicitis two to days day before the ito date appointed for Cor or time the coro ml Ion formalities and that these thele hind to 10 o bo ho postponed although the tue most hiatt been hoen made Involving the gathering of ot scores of of or oil nil nations princes prince rulers ruler timid and governmental tives lIvell from all nil parts of or time the world worM elaborate preparations on eu n a scale scalo of ot magnificence such us mis wits was perhaps never equaled equal In the history of ot the tho world He Ii continues Time The surgeons who operated upon tins ICing I did not remove the up hut only made nn mimi opening to 10 drain Iraln tho lie which hat hail formed nit nil is the tho result of ot the disease They the tho King that It would bo lIo necessary to perform another opera Ion upon him for tor removal of ot the dis diseased eased cased member when ho mil hAil camel sufficiently cathy recovered to make It Il prudent for tor or Huch it tin n to be lIo performed Time The King however decided ho lie holad lad hiatt hall enough of ot operations and litter after n a 1 diligent study of or tho the disease ind Its causes ho lie maim mudo a II decided change In his hla habits of or life lito iI As Act R a n re remit reo suit mit he ho has hns steadily Improved In amid hns has not found It necessary to 10 o submit to another operation not laving hn villI once suffered from Crom on nn attack of ot tinting during the tho past two years He lie does not expect to ha another attack and line hns dismissed nil nfl nl of 01 u it surgical operation Another point made by h Dr Kellog I olo lie III H this that the appendix by no ho means Is s tho tile Useless member ot of tim the human body It was WAil but recently supposed to toc tobe he be c He lie quotes authority to Provo prove that Jl It t has n a Very ory ery Important function to perform It Is he ho says a n glandular structure forming and pouting out In imi Into Into to the time colon a 11 mucus 8 which serves senses to tho the membrane against Injurious substances To pronounce It he ho henS nys nS a mm I useless organ a II vestige or n a relic rello of or some comno bygone U is simply a n of Ignorance Wo Ve give gle these various expressions on oil the tIme subject tar for what they are oro worth Tho The prevalence and the tho fatality ot or tho the disease rendered the lie discussion of ot It U of ot general public Interest |
