The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-10-25
NDICITIS-WHAT is WHAT.
AND WHO is WHO?
To the Editor Ocala Banner:

Being asked by several different
persons TO write something on the
subject of appendicitis, l send you
the following:
| cannot say, with Paul, Il have
fought a good fight; | have finished
my course; | have kept the faith,
but | can say have made an effort,
and look back upon the past as
stepping stone to something higher
and better, not only in my own life,
but for the whole world.
The moving finger writes, and, hav-
ing writ,
Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half line
Nor all your tears wash out word
of it,"
That is true, profoundly, terribly
true Ii is better if we realize it
while still the page of life lies open
fair and clear before us. We cannot
altar the past; it is what it is, and
must forever so remain But God
can bring good out Of our evil, and
he constantly does Look at the his
tory OF Egypt and the tickle Nile En-
compassed by the wilderness, the I'M
fortunate natives were unable to es-
cape They died in heaps The val
ley resembled a field Of battle. Eacn
village became charnel-house SkeI-
etons sat grinning at street corners,
and the wind whistled among dead
mems bones. But God spared a few
survivors, who fingered miserably
through the years, browsing on the
thorny shrubs of the desert, and shar
ing With vultures their horrible re-
past. Speak of all men being equal;
science fails to find it fact There
were superior minds, stimulated by
the memory of the past, and by fear
of that which might return strained
to the utmost their ingenuity to con
troll and guide the tickle Nile, the riv-
or which had hitherto sported with
their lives. They did it, and you
know the RESULT Nothing as yet
| has come up to their brains and
work What? Time the morns mys-
! terious vision brings
There are minds, stimulated by
the memory Of that dreadful disease
-appendicitis-wh which are working
day and night to control it, Lorand
will further on give you the cause
and effect Huxley has already told
us who is who. Many who fall. who
rise, who triumph for a while and
plenty who do sadly moan Those
VINO rise our eyes are often blinded
to their vices by the glory of their
deeds. but, as the light fades, their
nakedness and horrible ignorance are
revealed.
Noltair taught men to yearn for an
ideal state, which they. with their
own efforts, might attain He inspir-
ed them with the sentiment of liber-
W
OF right
We all know in these days that ap-
pendicitis is one of the most frequent
causes of unexpected death The by
giene of the intestines is sadly neg
lected, causing intestinal disease by
which particularly young and prom
Using lives are frequently cut off The
caecum is one of the places of selec-
ton for the stagnation OF the faecal
contents in the intestinal canal. AS
the pressure of such faecal matter in
the caecum and colon is greatest to-
ward the appendix the contents may
go more easily into than away from
the appendix, and particularly so
when, from a long rest in the cae-
cum. they are thickened. The return
OF the faecal matter from the appen-
dix is often hindered by a spindle
shaped thickening at the junction of
the appendix with the caecum, which
presents the appearance of a narrow
bridge This thickening of the mouth
OF the appendix is the consequence
OF the very close contact of the
psoas muscle, upon which, in many
people, the appendix lies; resting
upon it, so to speak This has been
shown by Offerhaus a surgeon in
The Hague hospitaD to be the case
in g. per cent. OF normal men In
certain movements, such as running
or cycling, the psoas is continually
pressing against the appendix, and
X Is natural that such continuous
pressure against this organ will in
time, leave permanent mark which
is. indeed, seen in many cases of APP
pendicitis After a certain time a
circumscribed augmentation will be
visible in the parts OF the appendix