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Show When William Rockefeller had ap- m pendlcltis, Dr. McBirney was called in m to perform the necessary operation a After his recovery, Mr. Rockefeller re- 1 celved the doctor's bill In due course, ' and drawing a check went to pay the account in person. In the conversation fi which followed, appendicitis was nat J urally their main theme. "You told a me," gaid Mr. Jlockefeller, "while I 4 was sick, doctor, that everybody in 'I the world had a vermiform appendix " "With a few exceptions, I believe that -Ah to be the case," answered the doctor j "And that, sooner or later," pursued 1 the oil magnate, "everyone would have J to be operated on, either to cure or 1 ffiVFWt. the disease." "That is tho m ipBirerally recognized opinion among M the medical fraternity," was the reply. M "Well," said Mr. Rockefeller, rising, j "if you will pardon me saying so, it M seems to me that you have a better B thing of it than has the Standard Oil B Company." M |