The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-12
APPENDICITIS.
IS ALMOST AN UNKNOWN 4LADK AMONG THE ARABS.
offence Seems to Show That the cease Is Rare Among People Who : Meat sparing,y-s1edicai Treat
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5 is a long time since appendicitis pbeen discussed at the Academy of Ifcine. True, we have had vaca- B, and though appendicitis is not the academy supposes it ought to during the months of August and #ember. And, besides, it begins to snne diff1culit to say anything new question which for ten years past [made so much ink and blood run. Dr. Chauvel, medical inspector ot |army, who has belled the cat by a |y oil the frequency of appendicitis he French army.
 little detail in passing: During the 1902 the military hospitals received patients afflicted with appendicitis. i of this number 18S have been treat
 Eccording to the surgical rite. and have received purely medical
 sment, although according to 8 cell ted mot, 'the medical treatment of 3ndicitis does not exist Of the operated on with the knife, twenty B died; while the 4S0 not treated the knife furnished but five deaths hrcely 1 per cent. Thus, theoreti-
 F, medical treatment does not ex- but. practically. medical treatment Is ninety-nine out of hundred is vexatious for the theorists, but Eo be treated with contempt by the i e interesting point in the statistical N of M. Chauvel is the comparison Nh he institutes between the figures 'ished by the army of the metrop- land by the army in Algeria. In the Nineteenth corps of the army france had AGO cases of appendicitis, nearly one to every thousand of zeffective-to be precise, 0.95-while
 Nineteenth corps in Algeria and #s had but thirty-two cases, or 0.44 twice less. In 1902 these les were larger; 619 cases in France, I27 per thousand, and forty-nine Nigeria, or 0.63. The proportion is tler in Algeria than in France, and difference, which is from simple to 3le, remains exactly the same in as in 1901.
 |ese statistics not having been man. |tured pour les besoins de la cause, may consider the deductions exact, admit that. as a general rule ap- |licitis is more rare in Algeria than France. Besides, that is the opin- | of all the physicians who practice |ur African colony. And M. Chauvel E the example of a surgeon in very I've practice, during a sojurn of five Is at the civil and military hospi- |of Bilda, found but a single acca- for operating for appendicitis. Un- Ey surgeoni
 Chauvel pushed yet further his in- lies. Our army in Africa includes |opeans and natives. Legionaries, Hers of the line and Turcos, are they |als before appendicitis? Or Mohan- Y, does he, kindly extend his protec- over the appendices of his follow In five years, from 1898 to 1902, of an effective of 14,000 men, we |e among the French and Europeans eases of appendicitis, or 0.64 per Q, while in the same space of time
 of an effective of 17000 natives we but thirteen cases, that is, OLA per Q.
 y this it appears that appendicitis .wo times less frequent among the 'nch soldiers in Algeria than among
 French of France, and it is ten es more rare among the native Al ians. The difference is much toe at to be accidental. It should have ause. What is it? Is it an affair race, of climate, or religion? NJ, auvel thinks it is a question of ali ltation.