APPENDICTIS.

NZ Truth, Issue 120, 5 October 1907, Page 8

APPENDICTIS.

Are Operations Necessary?

The Confession of an American

Doctor.

Here is a statement by a' professional M.D. wjio tells what he knows :

"I have witnessed 34 operations for so-called appendicitis, but never have I seen a diseased appendix. Yet I have seen a number of healthy, blooming young men and women sent to the Angels just because the surgeons wanted the fee of 300 to 500 dollars.

"I mean just what I say— that it was absolutely for the fee only, and the surgeons made no bones about saying so before the operation was performed."

A surgeon who is said to have performed more operations for appendicitis than any other American doctor, made the statement that 99 per cent of the cases he operated on for appendicitis proved not to be that disease at all.

"In a certain case where the family of an appendicitis patient insisted that they wanted to see the appendix after it was removed, the surgeon having amputated a healthy appendix as usual, cut off a piece of fat from the wall of the abdomen, twisted it so it looked like a corkscrew, dipped it m the blood of the patient, showed it to the family and explained to them how destruction and disintegration had taken place and that the operation was just m the nick of time to save the man's life.

"No valid argument or evidence can be presented to show that one operation m 500 is actually necessary. "Can language be strong enough to condemn this practice of butchering and murdering ? It is so foul that it smells to heaven.

I will give a few other instances to substantiate the foregoing statements :

A school teacher, 22 years of age, who had inherited several thousand dollars, went to a physician and complained that she had a pain m her left side near the ribs (remember I said the left side) . The physician told her she had appendicitis, and she believed it. I examined her and told the physician she was m perfect health, but being quite fleshy it would be very risky to operate on her. "Well, there is 400 dollars m it, and she expects to be operated upon," said the physician ; and m four days she went to the Angels.

One of our congressmen, a perfect giant of physical health, was taken with a little pain m the abdomen while attending church. He called a physician when he arrived home and was told he had appendicitis. He was taken to the hospital that same day, and operated upon, and was buried the same week.— "Glimpse of the Eternal Light."