NEWS BY MAIL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12543, 3 May 1935, Page 7

NEWS BY MAIL

SUBTLE APPENDIX

T-TOW IT DISGUISES ITSELF AS SOME. OTHER COMPLAINT.

“The appendix is a most subtle and deceptive adversary, disguising it soil under the symptoms of some other complaint. “It often happens that a chrome appendix in its later stages is erroneously diagnosed as tuberculosis, cancer. or some other wasting disease. “There should be a thorough and careful examination of every patient, no matter bow trivial bis complaint may seem.” These conclusions have been reached by J)r. Charles Flandin, honorary physician of the Hertford British Hospital, Paris, and Dr. ,T. Campbell Gilroy, the resident medical officer. Four British eases of chronic appendicitis sent to the British Hospital in Paris worn wrongly diagnosed, it is stated, and treated for years as other diseases. After operations for appendicitis three out of flic four patients made complete recoveries. 11)35 WILL GIVE HIM THE HTJMP. Noel will have the hump in 11)35. The London Zoo’s first baby camel lor twenty years had no hump when he was horn on Christmas Day. Noel’s constant joy is to walk underneath bis mother, and he needs harder and harder pushes to iorce himself through. That shows Noel that bis bump is getting larger. Mother Fatima doesn’t mind. To be bumped against a'hundred times a- day by a son with an ambitious hump is apparently one of tho penalties of being a camel. Noel is stronger than he looks. His long white woolly legs bend at tho most disconcerting angles. It has boon too wet for him to go out-of-doors yet, but he has had scores of visitors. His engaging hop skip and jump will be -one of the treats of the Zoo on the first fine day.