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Query Last Sunday night the wife of a friend of mine had a severe attack of appendicitis, this being the third she has had, the last one previous being about six weeks ago. He called in one of the best physicians in the city, and he at once prohibited her from eating anything and told her husband that he thought an operation would be neces sary. Now, would you give us your valuable advice in this matter? Not long ago I read an article against operating for appendicitis. Some of these doctors are too fond of resorting to the knife. My friend's wife is a girl of twenty-one or twenty-two years of age, rather inclined to be stout, as she weighs one hundred and fifty pounds, and was operated on some few years ago for rupture caused by strain and overwork. Would you advise an operation? If not, what course of treatment? -P. H. A., Canada. Answer: I am somewhat embarrassed in attempting to answer your question. In the first place, a diagnosis of appendicitis is very difficult. I am not at all sure that your friend's wife has appendicitis at all. You do not tell me what the symptoms are, and therefore I have no basis for judgment; but acting on the presumption that you are correct in your supposition that she has appendicitis, I would then have to know whether it has proceeded far enough to produce any septic In writing to advertisers, please mention symptoms. That is to say, chills, cold, clammy sweats, and a rapid loss of strength and vitality. Even where septic symptoms are produced the patient, if young and healthy, stands a good chance for recovery. On the whole, my judgment would be that I should not permit an operation. The use of a flexible tube with which to flush out the colon thoroughly, with two quarts of warm water and milk, equal parts, to which a half cupful of molasses has been added, should be commenced at once. 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