APPENDICITIS.
Many causes have'been attributed to the rapid •increase in recent years in the numlber of cases of appendicitis. It remained, however, for ' a ■ New. Zealand doctor to throwi some light on thei effect in. one direction, at least, of a complaint' that at one • time seemed almost epidemic. A nervous (patient, seekisng to find a reason for his pains, asked his .medical adviser whether he. thought'-'that motoring caused appendicitis. The doctor scouted the'idea. ''But lam not sure," the added reflectively, ; "that appendicitis does not cause motoring -r-jamorig doctors. I got a new set of tyres out of my last case."'.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10526, 13 January 1912, Page 4
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101APPENDICITIS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10526, 13 January 1912, Page 4
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