Show MORE ABOUT when doctora disagree who ie to decide ie a question pertinent to the discussion 0 surgery in tho treatment of appendicitis or what is known in en rope as the american disease since the discovery and diagnosis of the disease in 1885 doctors have disagreed as to when the knife should be used if at all on a patient it ia well to co neider the coneen Bus of opinion of the medical congress now in cession in denver as voiced by dr W W keen of philadelphia lie eaid the physician should call the surgeon at once whenever he arrives at the conclusion that the symptoms show appendicitis in a majority of cases the surgeon la called too late I 1 protest against tho use of opium except in rare it bag a tendency to maek the symptoms of the disease and leads the patient to toe krave I 1 protest against the argument of dri niles of salt lake that every case ought to be operated upon and the appendix is never to be left oat of poet on many bodies it was found that 1000 0 the individuals had bad appendicitis at some time in their lives and bad all recovered from the di they all died of some other disease I 1 challenge the that through surgical operations all but two per cent of cases can be saved I 1 challenge operator in the room to take well persons aud operate upon them without killing more than 2 per cent we all fail gentlemen I 1 do not know why but nil fail I 1 do not believe fn oper on all cases ot appendicitis id rather have a live man with an appendix than a ded one without it applause I 1 do not believe with the witty frenchman that no is complete without a post mortem laughter if the patient is no worse after forty eight hours of observation let him alone let him get well dr of cincinnati told of an operation which he performed accepting the statement of the country physician ae to the nature of the duease too late the a discovered that the patient was nut troubled with appendicitis in many cases he would open the abscess and let the patient acet well dr mccrea took the position that children having the disease should be operated upon in almost every case |