The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-11-07
Apper 'leitis Symposium.

The "Appendicitis Symposium Of
the Cuyhoga County Medical Society
at the Medical Library building last
evening WAS SO aa.ersa...ai;s {; i; ;;sat Il il il
will be resumed two; weeks hence,
when the papers for which there was
not time last evening will be presented
and the spicy disnusaion continued.
On the treatment Of appendicitis,
on the advisabiiity- OF outing open
people. who have che disease, on the
use Of opium for it, and even on the
pronunciation Of the word the doctors
disagreed, Tbe young doctors made
fun Of sthe 2 old ones and the old ones
the young. Some Of them pronounced
the word as though it were snalled
".Appendiceetiss" and others cap
pendesfghtis.
Papers were read by Drs. Guy II.
Fitzgerald, Charles B. Parker, Charles
G. Foote, l.. b. Tuckerman and
Joseph v. Kofron. DR.. Parker told
how to tell saying that the patient 8
stomach usually had a tboard-like"
feeling when felt. DR.. Foote said
that some. patients got we'll anyway,
whether anything was done FOR them
or not, and that some died, no matter
how much was done. He thought the
patients chances were better il there
were an operation.
DR.. Tuckerman said that people had
appendicitis years before the disease
was discovered and named appendi-
citis, and that they got we'll Of it be.
fore all Of the modern discoveries were
dreamed Of. he thought there had
been an increase in the disease since
the grippe epidemios. BE said he
gave calomile, tartar emetio and opium
for it, and his patients got we'll with
out being cut up, although he realized
that il doctor refused to operate on
a case it would usually go to come
other doctor who would.
DR.. Kofron aaid that so per cent. OF
the cases Of appendicitis vafs in chill
drsn between 4 and Ii years Of age,
and that 20 per cent. Of them were
boys.
DR.. E. F. Gushing told OF the dis
coveries Of q French Doctor that
showed that all that has been said and
written about the cause Of the disease
is wrong and that the disease is caused
by germs that are present in all
healthy insides, but which are made
virulent and turned into dangerous
appendicitis when the appendix gets
twisted or stopped up so that the
bugs in it are isolated, {
DR.. Quirk thought that the statis-
tics as to the proportion Of cases
among men and women were all wrong,
because the women went to gynaecolo-
gists with their appendicitis cases,
and these specialists were not in
cluded in the count of the number Of
cases treated.
DR.. Charles j. Aldrich, the presi-
dent Of the society, said chat he would
like to hesr what some Of the older
doctors did before appendicitis and
the operation forsit were discovered.
DR.. A.. s. Hart said that he had
treated the disease for years before
the name and operation were invented; !;
that he had never seen a case in which
he thought il necessary chat there
should be an operesion, and that he
had never lost a csse.
Then it settled down to q fight be-
tween the medical doctors aud the
surgeons. Dr.. P. III. Sawyer, who
looked about as old as DR.. Hart, said
he had treated lots Of cases before the
new tangled name and operation were
discovered, but that now ho vas afraid
to handlesa serious case without adj
yising an.operation. ct used to give
castor oiland opium, and az the other.
things old-time doctors gave, but now
think appendicitis ism surgical dis
ease, he said.
DR.. F.sJ. Morton asked DR.. Parker
if it were possible that the board like
feeling Of the abdomen might be alb.
sent in . case OF appendicitis. Or.
Parker replied: Anything is possi-
bic in medicine. DR.. B. ID. Eaiger
said: 81 don L think it is right TO
scare the young doetora,. Of whom q
great many are present, iato thinking
that every case Of appendicitis must
be turned over TO surgeon. Lots Of
them getwell without an operation 2
DR.. Fred Herrick told Of case Of
appendicitis chat hid she clossst at
tention Of . number Of prominent
physicians. and then turned ont so ha