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Show Appendicitis Is Not New. (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) "Why is it," asked a man of a physician, phy-sician, "that so many people are suffering suf-fering these days with appendicitis and have to be operated upon, when there didn't use to be any of them?" , "My young friend," the doctor answered, an-swered, "this disease has been in the world since Adam was perhaps that story of losing a rib may have arisen because he was operated on for appendicitis. appen-dicitis. When your grandfather was a boy his neighbors had it all around him, and so they did when you were a boy. But they called in inflammation of the bowels, stomach ache, acute indigestion, liver trouble, or something of that sort. The patient got well or he died, but no one ever opened him when living to see what the matter was Perhaps it is as well that they did not, for much of the surgery of fhose days was more dangerous than any disease." |