“…In the past two decades the concept of earlier operation in diverticulitis has gradually gained much ground, as shown by the papers of Hugh Devine (1948). Boyden (19501, Wilson (1954 and1958), Bacon and Valiente 11956), Waugh and Walt (1957). Welton (1957), Noer (1959, Rodkey andWelch (1959), etc.…”