Word: appendix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diagnosticians as well as surgeons doubtless will be vexed with Dr. Hoffman's blame. Appendicitis is not always easy to diagnose. The surgeon usually gets the case at the last minute, when the appendix is about to burst or has already burst and scattered its pus. It is almost always peritonitis which causes death...
Infection is the essential cause of appendicitis. The appendix is a taggle to the intestines, on the right side of the abdomen. It doubtless is the remnant of some organ useful to a primitive creature from which man evolved. But what that use was, anatomists have never agreed. It has no known use to present man. and it is often a nuisance. Feces, seeds, fruit stones, other digestive debris may pack into the appendix, set up an inflammation. Or the inflammation may represent an infection which originated in some distant part of the body...
...right ureter (through which the right kidney drains into the bladder). Diseases of women's sexual apparatus may act like appendicitis. Especially confusing in this respect is menstrual colic, from which many a flabby and nervous woman suffers. And infections of the intestines may spread to the appendix...
...appendix pain may pass away. But it is almost sure to return some day. There is no medicine to cure an infected appendix. It must be cut out. the sooner the better, agree most physicians and surgeons. Deaths are almost always due to delayed operations...
...made ready on the operating table while the tall thin man whipped off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, put on a surgeon's white robe. A quick deft incision and a few minutes later the tall thin man had excised the bus manager's ruptured appendix. Such was the first operation performed by tall, thin Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, brother of the Constitution sponsor (see p.11), since he became President Hoover's Secretary of the Interior...