Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-10-06
How to Prevent Appendicitis

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Herbert =. Parkyn, NJ D. medical
superintendent of the Chicago School
of Psychology, has written a commun.-
cation to Suggestion "a magazine or
the New Psychology, Happiness and
Success, under the above caption.
In view of the enormous slaughter
of human beings which has been going
on now for ten years because of the ia
tally of appendicitis when subjected
TO the surgeons knife, the statement
of DR.. Parkyn will be of interest.
After asserting the frequency OF
this disease, its fatality, and calling
attention to the fact that it is a so
ciety complaint" and assuring his
readers that he is not making light of
the subject, he proceeds to say:
Il call this society complaint, for
it is seldom that the working classes
suffer from the disease at all. On the
contrary, it is found chiefly in persons
who are not compelled to earn their
living by manual labor The first, last
and only one cause of appendicitis is
insufficient drinking of liquids
I'm order to have perfect health a
full grown person requires in the
neighborhcod of two quarts of liquids
every "a hours. The liquid is required
to supply the saliva, gastric juice, pan
create juice, bile, urine, perspiration
ETC., and stinting of the fluids required
by the body prevents the formation
of these various secretions in suffi.
Gent quantity to enable them to carry
on their work properly.
One of the chief causes for appendi-
citis given by medical writer's is chron-
ic constipation. Now 80 cases of chron-
ic constipation out of every hundred
are the result of habitually drinking
too little, and the quickest and most
effective way to overcome chronic con-
stipation and Danish it permanently is
to drink eight or ten glassfuls of water
every day.
Bile is the natural purgative Of the,
human body, and in health it is formed
in large quantities daily. But the sup.
ply OF bile depends on the quantity OF
liquids drunk so that if person
drinks only half the quantity required
by the body, only half the normal
quantity of bile can be secreted ana
constipation develops to the same de-
gree in which the secretion of bile is
checked or diminished.
People that earn their living bv
physical labor usually perspire freely.
and in consequence drink freely: and.
it is for this reason that appendicitis
so seldom develops in the active, work
ing class.
/ never lose an opportunity OF
questioning person who has suffered
from acute or chronic appendicitis.
and although | have questioned scores
or them in person ana by correspon-
dence, | have yet to find the first suf-
ferer from this complaint who, before
his attack, drank anything Approximate
ing the quantity per day required by a
healthy man.
Il have been called on to treat many
cases of chronic appendicitis and have
had no difficulty in relieving every
patient permanently within a few DAYS
after the proper water drinking habit
was established. In fact. in acute and
chronic appendicitis water drinking
will be found almost a specific cure,
except when suppuration has occurred
and operative measures are impera-
tive.
1.-TWO sisters, physicians, both sur
fering from chronic appendicitis, came
to Chicago at the same time to under
go operations for the removal of the
appendix. The surgeon who was to
perform the operations decided to
postpone them for month as an ex
animation of one of the sisters proved
her to be in an unsatisfactory condi-
ton for taking an anesthetic.
During the months delay these pa
tients came to me for consultation.
/ found both Of them suffering from
chronic constipation, which had ex-
listed for years, and neither Of them
was drinking a quart Of liquids per
day.
81 explained 20 them the necessity
for looking after the life essentials
every day. particularly the water, with
the result that instead Of going to the
hospital 10 be operated on, when their
months respite was over they left
for their homes feeling better and
stronger than they lad felt for years.
Every symptom Of the trouble fo-