Show 1 r. r i tf 11 7 i i. ABOUT APPENDICITIS TREATMENT OF THE MALADY IN VARIOUS LANDS Rare Hare Among People Who Eat Little Littler Meat Medicine Meat Medicine More Successful Successful Successful Suc Suc- Than the Knife A statistical study of cases of appendicitis appendicitis ap ap- has fias been made by Dr Chau Chan vel the tho medical Inspector of the French army By far the most valuable valuable able Information brought out by this investigation is the result of at medical treatment for the disease Although there Is a theory that there Is no such thing as medical treatment for appendicitis appendicitis ap ap- it Is claimed that medical treatment cures 99 out of every In 1902 68 patients suffering from appendicitis were received in the military military mili mili- tary hospitals of France Out of this number were treated according to the surgical rite and received purely medical treatment Of the number operated upon 23 died while out of the not operated upon there were but three deaths Dr Chauvel also made Investigations Investigations investigations to find out the cause of appendicitis appen appen- He compared the figures furnished furnished fur fur- by the French army in the metropolis and those of the army in Algiers In 1901 the Nineteenth corps of the army In France showed a record record record rec rec- ord of one case to every thousand while the Nineteenth corps In Algiers had two less The next year these figures were larger but the difference was exactly the same Pushing his inquiries still further Dr Chauvel found that the French army In Algeria included both Europeans Europeans Euro Euro- French and natives In five years out of men there were among the French and Europeans cases caes of appendicitis while in the same space of time out of natives natives na na- tives there were but 13 cases This shows that the disease is two times more frequent among the French in France than the French in Algeria and is ten times less frequent among the natives Tl The e difference is too great to be accidental Dr Chauvel thinks the reason is in the aUmenta tion Uon The Arabs are a sober people who eat little and are vegetarians When they eat meat It is cooked to shreds So It happens that among the Arabs leading their ordinary life the disease disease dis dis- ease Is almost unknown It is seen more frequently among the auxilia auxilia- ries It is because the regime of the latter Is no more the regime of the Arab but more like that of the French trooper But this does not explain why the Euro Europ transplanted to the soil solI of Africa where his regime hardly hardly hard hard- ly differs from that of the metropolis should likewise be immune from the disease Other medical men have testified to the rarity of appendicitis among people people peo pea pIe who eat less meat than we Dr Snyder who has been attached to the Persian court for more than ten years has been called upon to treat only five cases of this malady at Teheran three of which were Europeans and only two Persians He also attributes the rarity of accidents to the mode of alimentation of the Per Per- At Teheran abstinence from pork is obligatory and the meat of cattle cattle cattle cat cat- tle is almost unknown Their meats are usually chicken or mutton and these are always cooked to shreds |