p. 16 | Appendicitis

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 13, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 40.

Appendicitis

At the International Medical Congress held at Budapest last month, Professor Sonnenberg, of Berlin, took strong ground that surgery in the treatment of appendicitis was not necessary at all times; that many cases resulting from catarrhal inflammation could be treated without having recourse to an operation; and mentioned the fact that he had seen three hundred cases of acute appendicitis cured without an operation. We have understood that it is a well-known fact and joke among physicians that a great many of the so-called appendicitis operations were disappointing to the surgeon in finding nothing the matter whatever with the appendix.