APLENDICITIS OPERATIONS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 30 January 1907, Page 3

APLENDICITIS OPERATIONS

At tin- Academy of Medicine in IVr; rocvn'.'y I'v.-fessor Dieulafoy. 01 the Motci Pien ibi-pilal in Pari-, In-ougilt ' serious indi'i. ~ent ,v.:iiiii'il. surgeon; epcrnliu;.' I'm- appendicitis in a hirfre iiuiiilii-v of ewes without l),-in« all''! to i!ia."n--c wi.h certainty wheliicr tlie patients ere siiil'criue, from lluil innlady or not. Or Di.'lr:.ldv is nu eminent piivs-i cian. Cluneal Profe-sor at the Hotel Dicii. an I .... aul liciriiy on appen.lioWs i.pou which *ir- lias written an juijiui-t----ivnt \vn;>- ilr Pieiila:Vy '.-ays that inmm ii -l. .ii - operations are performed for noii-i v-t.enl appendicitis in conserpi.aiee i.l eri'i ills diagnosis. Jn should -.et. diaenCse a mnlailv \\ ■ii<-;, onlv phys, inns c-iin .-i'eo: ni-i'. .ill died in.ririai- ca-o- which can..' mideS' hi- in™ intiee. in which ll.<> pa,,cut- !a.l lieen operated upon for appelldicM m Weeks pivci.ills'y. and «li„ still felt the same pains in the same l'-ion. 'Pee Kurgcou had l.elieved a, pendiciiis to exist., ami had opi'iate:l sn-i-orilitijflv, wherea., it was only hypertrophy ° <.f the'intestinal niei'ubra'.i" or typlioeolitis, which latter malady e:.isis without appendicitis. Jieiiiy i'cproa,ched by the .'eminent snr-eon. J'r Perlus, with diseiissine; this sidijeet in public, l)r ])ieu!afoy \varnilv 'replied that tne public was the e'h'.r parte iiuere,te,l-not, he said, the public who can allord to pay, and who Mould not a!l-\v themselves to be operated upon without medical advice, but the patients in the hospitals,'in™ and women who ijain iheir Jivin-,' l)V hard work, who are cxim-cd t etlle.-s alulomiuiil iterations, -oft'un. resulting in deatli. and without any re.lres.- when eivr. of diagnosis