| Show appendicitis IS PO POPULAR ULAR nature h of lie the ia disease that at of late zate become almost not many years yeara ago a tolerably common report of df tho the causo cause of death was inflammation of tho the bowels it was lt pretty general term and has since been little heard beard of as different forms ot of inflammation in tho tile abdominal cavity have become better known tho the most startling of all this ia is appendicitis itis inflammation of the vermiform appendix a useless and dangerous closed pouch which projects from tho the almost concurrently with the enormous advance in surgery which makes opening tho the abdomen reamona reasonably bly safe instead of almost certainly fatal there has been an enormous increase in tho the number of cases of this disease reported by physicians tho the disease has acquired an interest that it could not havo have while whilo it was almost impossible to treat it successfully while milo only a limited range of treatment was open for any abdominal in inflammation animation it made little difference just where or what the lesion was now thero there aro are every reason to decide promptly and accurately and good hope of a surgical cure in this and some other affections of the lower viscera at tho the same time it is evident that much remains to bo be learned as to this particular affection until recently it was usually supposed to proceed from mechanical irritation of some indigestible substance which became fastened in this slender blind passage now thero is a germ theory for it which gets some support from the fact that occasionally sio nally in a true case of appendicitis no foreign substance ia is fou found lid in tho the appendix in tho the great majority of cases however a solid substance is found sometimes under circumstances which make it impossible to doubt that it furnished tho the starting point for tile attack there seems also to bo be a distinct difference of opinion among physicians as to the length of time a case may continue somo some eay say or at least imply that a mild irritation may exist for weeks or months while others consider that the acute acuto and brief stage is tho the only ono one which deserves to bo be known under tho the title of appendicitis hartford courant |
