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Show Diagnosis of Appendictis. The following from the pen of Dr. J. B. Murphy, the eminent physician of Chicago, concerning the diagnosis of appendicitis, is too valuable to be allowed al-lowed to rest where the practicing physician phy-sician cannot see it; it deserves to be printed over and over again. Following Follow-ing up an experience of operating in more than 2,000 cases, Dr. Murphy says: "The symptoms of acute appendicitis appen-dicitis are. in my experience, in the order of their occurrence: 1, Pain in the abdomen, sudden and severe; 2, followed fol-lowed by nausea or vomiting; 3, general gen-eral abdominal sensitiveness; 4, elevation eleva-tion of temperature, beginning from two to twenty-four hours after the on set of pain. These symptoms occur almost al-most without exception in the above order, and when that order varies I always al-ways question the diagnosis." |