The therapeutical applications of hydrozone and glycozone . ny form in peritonitis ofany sort. Mr. Tait, I believe, says that he has banished it from his pharmacopoeia alto-gether. My two definitions for opium in peritonitis are these: 126 1. A drug which stupefies the physician who gives it more than it does the patientwho takes it. 2. A drug which generally relieves the distress of the physician who without it wouldbe compelled to do something rational for the patient who has put confidence in him. Opium and peritonitis breed a vampire which lulls the patient to sweet repose whilehis life is
The therapeutical applications of hydrozone and glycozone . ny form in peritonitis ofany sort. Mr. Tait, I believe, says that he has banished it from his pharmacopoeia alto-gether. My two definitions for opium in peritonitis are these: 126 1. A drug which stupefies the physician who gives it more than it does the patientwho takes it. 2. A drug which generally relieves the distress of the physician who without it wouldbe compelled to do something rational for the patient who has put confidence in him. Opium and peritonitis breed a vampire which lulls the patient to sweet repose whilehis life is being sucked out, and the doctor is looking the other way. Remove the causefor peritonitis when you can. Remove the products of peritonitis when you can do noth-ing better. Avoid as carefully as possible the teachings of our honored preceptors whodid the best they could in the days when symptoms were treated and not prevented. An abdomen swollen with peritonitis looks to me like a great big ripe boil and need-ing the treatment that boils usually Figure i. Longitudinally split appendix. Perforated by concrements. Point of exit of fecal bullets. 2. Old stricture occluding lumen. 3. Hard, dry fecal bullets. Here is the second appendix. It is apparently normal as you observe, excepting atthe tip where it is rough and clubbed. I removed it last Thursday from a young manwho three weeks ago was laid up for a week with colic and vomiting, associated withswelling and tenderness in the right inguinal region. He found that something pulledwhenever he made exertion, and the tender spot remained. The roughness at the tipshows where adhesions fixed the tip of the appendix to parietal peritoneum, and that is . 127 hat caused the pulling and the tenderness. His appendix is what I call a growler. The first patient of to-days clinic is ready. The history is briefly this: Shortly afterchildbirth, fifteen years ago, agonizing colic, bilious vomiting, rigors, febrile reacti
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