The Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis

are for India, no man can tell, but despite the contention that vegetarian races are less liable to the disease than those races which eat large quantities of meat, there is no surgeon in India, who would fail to bear witness to the multitude of tragedies for which this disease is responsible. We are often told that appendicitis is a disease of modern times?more accurately a disease relatively recently recognized. The removal of Edward YIII's appendix was regarded as a desperate procedure, not because the operation had never been done before, but because of the fact that the syndrome was not well recognized and the very diagnosis was in doubt. The position briefly was this, that a case of acute appendicitis, which recovered was diagnosed as a ' perityphlitis ', but those who succumbed gained the unenviable distinction of dying of ' peritonitis