Of Inflammation, Chronic Disease, and Perforative Ulceration of the Cæcum, and of the Appendix Vermiformis Cæci, with Symptomatic Peritonitis and Fæcal Abscess

The Continuing Challenge of Acute Appendicitis

“…In 1830, however, Goldbeck' s [14] MD thesis Inflammation in the Right Iliac Fossa gave an accurate description of the clinical picture, but suggested that the disease originated in the caecum (perityphlitis). In England Burne [15] accepted typhlo-enteritis but mentioned the possibility of appendicular perforation. The prevailing view was that of Baron Dupuytren [16], who taught that the disease was caecal and resulted from the weight of faeces in the ascending colon.…”

Section of the History of Medicine

“…Its history is of some interest; tlhough called the sudor auglicus it appears highly probable that, whatever its natutre, it was brought to England in 1485 from Normianidy by Henry VII's mercenaries, who may have beenl carricrs. Paynive suggested that when introduced into this country it found a virgin soil and so ran like wildfire, just as measles did in the Faroe Islands (1781 and 1846) anid Fiji (1875 and1907). In this country five epidemics * Thie ihistory of tlie word " diplititeria " forims an inlteresting item in the Medical Research Council's monograph on Diphtheria: its )aeteriology, Patkology, aend linnemoology (1923).…”