The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-11-14
APPENDICITIS.

When that dreadful disease append
cisis appeared some few years ago it
vas regarded IS = medieal discovery,
40 . disease hitherto unrecegnised BY
the doctoes. But that Was great mis-
take. It is 40 old disease and has been
long written about. 10 the New York
Medical Record Dr. George NJ. Eide
hshls presented ga Review of the His
terry aud Literature Of Appendicitis. !"
He brought out ''she salient tacts bu-
yiea in 2,590 different books aud essays
upon thas disease, all but very small
pa,t Of which be has consulted in the
original" The troublesome saes"
eentain but little of grape seeds. bat
sass doctor aentioos SO grain of os., .
sfn of 6sh, 4 fruit stone. . chocolate
sns. nelea seeds, cherry stones. pruoe
ssoaes. raspberry seeds, date seed,
orange seeds. tomato aeeds, bean. !"
IN addition is is mentioned that .hair
il recorded ss having been found there.
HuckleberrY and blackberry seed, .
pieee Of she'll Of . hazel out, peanuts.
piece ofchestaus. bristle, GLACIERS
peios Of zinc. globule Of solder,
piece of screw .od knot of heavy silk
iga.urs that bad been used in some
abdominal surgery are also in the llss- "
DR. Rdebohls does aoe exhaust she list.
He states. aud We are quoting from
paper io the Bsl.inore Suo. that the
..c.saa,ive faotoes 10 the production of
tbs disease. he says. are universally ad-
nittsd by all writer's to be very gen,
e,.lly local iu character. Attention
hes been sailed to 40 analogy between
quincy and appendicitis. Heredisy as
cause aud family appendicitis have
been spoken Of. Bacteria play an i'm
poseant part 10 causing the disease
aou.y appendicitis has been described
Rheuua.ism has been pot down
as q cause" Bacteria thrive in the
$40 freely. We quote ''Bacseriologi-
cal investigation has shown, in practi-
eally every case. appendicitis to be due.
Or Edebohls Gays, to bacterial invasion
of the appendix walls The germs
may get into the tissue of the appendix
By means of the blood" Il is not by
soy meaus pew disease. Records of
che disease go back to l642. The
doctor says that the early records for
more that a hundred years only de-
scribe q condition nov described as
appendicitis.
The frss ,ecosoisation Of appendicitis
az distinct disease was io 1859. but
even down to 1888 knowledge Of the
existence Of the disease was By no
means general. In 1847 the diagnosis
Of appendicitis begsn to be made.
The bacterioloey of the disease vas
30, studied uotil 1891 The isss opera
tson of record vas io 1859 That
was for the purpose Of draining so
abscese, no. for the removal OF the
appepdix. The Inauguration of the
modern surgical trea:mento Of appeudicu
lar abscesses did not cemo until 1867" :"
He says that .'the FIRE. recorded opera
.ion 90 the apps.dix itself was planned
By DR. Mahomed and executed on Aug
"a. 1883. BY Symouds. Mabomed
disgnossicsted stooe 10 the appendix
Synonds removed shs ssooe; three
fesr.hs by Que half inch 10 size, aao
closed toe ops,ipg in the appendix
The ,, rr,,'i!eep. recovered aad vas cursd of
all bis symptoms" He are are sone
instructive statistics I: Although sse:e
has been belief that meu were more
sabjee, ;nap women to the disease, 10
succession cf $4,000 auiopsies appeo-
dioi,is wss found in 81 per cent of the
femsles and IS per cent of the males,
and ip 1913 susopsies reported BY aooth
er man evidences Of past appendicitis
we're found in 66 per cent of the wcmeo
and 56 per ceps Of the men lo 30O
acsopsies 1870 oormal appendices we're
found, all the others showing evidences
Of disease. Edebohls finds. clinically,
that 4 per eeot Of all women have
appeudiqitis. The appendix averages
hslf inch ionger 10 women than in men.
Several hundred susopsies have shown
as hign proportion of cases as above
2l per cent where the appendix vas
oht;tsratod ~