Some salient points in the diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of appendicitis / by John B. Deaver.

  • Deaver, John B. (John Blair), 1855-1931.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Some salient points in the diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of appendicitis / by John B. Deaver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [Reprinted from THE MEDICAL News, December 21, 1895.] Appendicitis, owing to its unusual frequency and alarming gravity, has become the most important intraabdominal inflammation encountered by the surgeon at the present time. Occupying this posi- tion, the subject is one worthy of the gravest con- sideration and sufficiently warrants the presentation of a few facts which I have learned in the careful study and treatment of a large number of cases. As many of these points have not been brought to the attention of the medical profession, I desire to emphasize them as much as possible and give to them the prominence which I feel they deserve. I refer most particularly to the early recognition of the varied symptoms of appendicitis, to a proper appreciation of the possible disastrous results of such a morbid process, and to the prompt application to all such cases of the most advanced surgery. I believe the time has arrived when those of us who have had the opportunity of observing and operat- SOME SA\Ui PA THO, E DIAGNOSIS, MENT OF By JOHN B. DEAVER, M.D., OF PHILADELPHIA. 1 Read at the meeting of the College of Physicians of Philadel- phia, December 4, 1895.