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The Function of the Vermiform Appendix

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 9, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 2.

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The Function of the Vermiform Appendix

THE theory that the vermiform appendix is a useless rudimentary organ, is hardly convincing. A late writer, Dr. Slaughter, contends that it has a useful function in secreting mucus to lubricate the lower intestines, and that inflammation from obstruction of this mucus is the chief exciting cause of appendicitis, a less severe form of the disease being due to impaired circulation in the appendix. Most cases of appendicitis known to this physician have recovered without operation or recurrence. Everything that God has made is made for a purpose.