Show DISEASE appendicitis is again the subject ot much in the medical journals and the dally papers of the country are giving the disease more attention not until 1832 did the doctors recognize the disease inflammation of the bowels having been the usual diagnosis since then surgery been applied the appendix removed and recovery obtained in 09 cases in euch deini the actual record while formerly thou tanda suffered excruciating pain and died in the belief that it was a different disease entirely that carried them down to the grave A doctor interviewed by a denver paper throws this light on the disease the increase in the number of cases ot appendicitis is attributed to that the disease is now recognized and treated as appendicitis contrary to the cener al opinion the surgeons claici that appendicitis itis is not dangerous if taken in its earlier there ia absolutely no safeguard against the dibase di ease per factly we 1 l man is as liable to beutter from it as a sick person it ie common in children and people 90 years of age are liable to be attacked A commonly accepted but absolutely erroneous idea is that appendicitis is caused from the swallowing of cherry pits grape seeds or similar substances appendicitis caused by these is considered u curious ahse 0 the disease by physicians and probably does not happen once in a hundred cases the appendix is an organ from two to three hinchee long and about half aa tie around as the litle finder lylar at the junction ot the small and large intestines on the right side of the abdomen the inflammation flam mation of this organ causes the disease the inflammation la caused in mariona way a blow error of digestion indigestion or the intestinal contents get ting ineide abia blind pouch abo appendix swells becomes inflamed and tender the may recover under rent the inflammation may possibly degenerate into condition or the inflammation may continue until pus or matter Is formed alin latter being the danee roua form of the disease sometimes the organ becomes gangrened and dead and this occasions rapidly eprea dine and nearly always fatal peritonitis A physician can never eay which of the many carea is tor a particular cabe nothing bat a operation can determine this the symptoms are very pronounced they begin with pains at or atlow the pit of the stomach and gradually chance in location until they settle in the right side the patient has a ever and sometimes vomits it be immediately boes to a physician his chances for recovery are good he waits three or four days be may die the tendency of the medical probes eion now ie toward an early surgical operation and the complete removal of the appendix the earlier the operation the greater the chances of recovery A person who has once suffered from appendicitis and recovered without an operation is very liable to have a second third and curah attack when be organ is once diseased it never fully recovers its normal condition there ia no for the appendix in the human body it is the vestige ot a useful portion ol 01 the intestinal tract in lower animals in the majority of cases where operations are formed some tr eign substance in the organ but in a great many cases nothing whatever is found in the little sack all the hinves leation tea tion has been made in america so much that for a while in europe it was called the american disease lately physicians have learned to recognize it in its earlier stages and consequently the mortality has been greatly decreased DEWEY WONDERFUL victory has eel the newspaper writers to ransacking the pages of history for a parallel but there Is no triumph on aea quite so ono aided in the annals odthe past but lor a daring deed dragee singeing of the king of beard in 1587 is said by the new york advertiser to hobt resemble deweys work with a powerful fleet he scoured the coast of spain and the african islands without result trading and treasure ships being sheltered in cadiz at last be sailed straight into the harbor crushing resistance of war galleys and proceeded to plunder scuttle and burn the assembled shipping tor two daye in of the maddened troops who could no more get at him than be at them lie carried off shiploads of plunder but destroyed much more |