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Show Medical Notes Insurance companies have become be-come alarmed ever the deaths from appendicitis. Eighteen thousand thous-and to twenty thousand people in the United States die each year from this cause, the death rate in 1929 being 15.2 per 100,000 people, which is the worst in the world. Our death rate is twice that ol England and four times that of Italy from this disease. The insurance in-surance companies have instituted an invetigation to ascertain the causes. A New York Toxicologist, who has shared in over thirty thousand thous-and autopsies, says his experience indicates that the human brain normally contains half a drop of puro alcohol, the liver three drops, and the blood five drops. This is usually found in the bodies of non-drinkers as well as those who indulge. This scientist is now trying try-ing to ascertain the part of the body that . manufactures alcohol and why. |