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Philadelphia Appendicitis Club Honors Surgeon

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 3, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 9.

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Philadelphia Appendicitis Club Honors Surgeon

There is a unique society in Philadelphia called the “Appendicitis Club,” who hold in special honor Dr. John B. Deaver. In one year he has performed 650 appendicitis operations. His record is an average of six major general operations a day. In one afternoon he performed twelve operations. He was chosen by more than 200 fellow physicians and surgeons from the Gulf to the Pacific to operate on them.