Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-08
MRsFEITONS TALKS
CONDUCTED BY
r9Rs WI. FELTON,
APPENDIGITIS

was a good deal more than fifty
years of age before L ever heard
there was such a disease as appen-
dicitis or that there was such thing
as the appendix in the. human frame.
I was quite we'll acquainted with for
mer Governor w. Y. Atkinson. lie
was one of the trustees of the Uni
versity> of Georgia by reason OF ms
husband, then living, was also a
trustee of the university. He and
Governor Atkinson were in Athens
serving as trustees. l was there
also. We lodged at the same hotel.
On Saturday we dined together at
the hotel and on Sunday night, after
Governor Atkinson's return to At,
lanta, he was carried to DR.. Holmes
sanitarium and operated on for ap-
pendiictis. My husband was a doc
medical college in the city of Au-
gusta, before he was twenty-one
years old, and delivered the vale
dictory to his class. When I read
the aforesaid account in several daily
newspapers concerning the appendix
| of Governor Atkinson, and it's re-
moval, I inquired about what the
appendix meant, and it's duties, etc.
| DR.. FELTON, replied: Nobody knows
what it was placed there for, but my
| to students-that MISUNDERSTANDING
| had a tail, and human beings only
had the beginning of the tail"
The removal of the appendix of
| Governor Atkinson made statewide
fame for DR.. Holmes and from that
time henceforward we have heard
| more concerning the appendix than
| any one part of the human body.
| Nowadays when a person is placed
on the operating table for any op'
GRAFTON on the body, the doctors pro-
coed to cut in and take out the APP
| pendix, on the theory of precaution.
| AS it is no good On the inside, then
extirpate it!
am not familiar with such sur
| gical operations, and can only speak
| from hearSay, but 1 am always SUR
| prised to be told that the appendix
is only a nucleus for start toward
| the grave, and the best thing to do,
| Is to cut. it out, and get rid of it,
expect there are 10000 appendices
cut out every month in the United
States of America at this time When
| ever anybody in my section of the
country goes to a sanitarium for
stomach trouble, and various sorts
running start and operates on the
appendix to become familiar with
the various other troubles.
| heard of doctor at one time
IN the long ago who was greatly
complained of, that all his patients
| IT6aI
practice and it developed that he
never studied medicine, but he did
own pair of ''pillbags," and did
ride horse when he was called to
see patient. When questioned as
TO the fits, he remarked: "I kin allus
cure the fits, and I takes that route
10 save my patients. AS soon as
fnG Gyo snow up 1l2n in plain case of fits,
- WISH somebody would tell us
What the appendix was really intend
S So TO 40, when 1t is placed in our
inoules, and why the wise men dig
1t up and cut it out. as a starter to-.
wards curing other troubles?
The Office of the HOW Shirt
Inc Methodist preachers of the
olden time q have been a Methodist
Tor nearly 20 .years) discoursed a
great deal on the office of the Holy
SO much about getting money out
OF the .pews that they tell us very
little about the subject at the head
or this article. Whenever a Meth
od1st preacher pronounces what is
known as the "benediction" he men
lions the Father, the Son and the
Holy Ghost" Yet I presume to say
long to (and I do not arraign any
other denomination for failures in
this line) know less about what is
| understood to be the Holy Ghost than
any other subject, that is so con-
stantly mentioned.
1t is also true that our Methodist
| preachers talk much less about hell
| fire" than they used to do, and you
| can't tell a church member by the
| dress and the ornaments they wear
| in the church building as well as in
the street. Church members in the