Appendicitis: The Etiology, Hygenic and Dietetic Treatment

In order to contrast my treatment with the best just now available I shall quote from one of the latest authorities, _"Modern Clinical Medicine--Diseases of the Digestive System...

_Etiology: _To understand the cause of appendicitis we must go back to the beginning, and when we do we find that it starts just where all diseases start, namely, _where health...

The following case comes to my mind, for some of the initial symptoms are similar to those of the case just described: M. B., age 42, farmer, was taken sick with the usual sympt...

_I have appendicitis; what shall I do to be saved? _Don't eat anything until well. Use a stomach tube and wash out the stomach; then use a fountain syringe and wash out the bowe...

_History: _Appendicitis did not become popularly known until about twenty years ago--not till it was christened and baptized in the blood of the surgical art. Of course the appe...

_Surgical Treatment: _Appendicitis is quite generally thought of as an exclusively surgical disease. Osler recommends that such cases be operated upon, and most of the prominent...

_Pathology: _Formerly very little was written about the pathology of the appendix, the writers describing more the lesions of the cecum and surrounding structures. After the bir...

_Symptoms: _An acute attack is ushered in with severe pain. At first this is felt over the entire abdomen, but it is more marked near the navel than elsewhere. After about twent...

This cut represents the back view of the cecum, the appendix, a part of the ascending colon, and the lower part of the ileum, with the arterial supply to these parts.

Allow me to repeat: As soon as a case is diagnosed the proper treatment is to stop all medicine and food, for they excite movement, and this should be avoided. Give nothing but...