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inflammation of the vermiform appendix of the large intestine, which is a slender, blind tube arising from the inner and back part of the cecum about 34 of an inch below the fleo-czecal junction, its average length being about 3% in. The disease occurs most frequently between the ages of ten and thirty, more often in males than females. It is due to bacterial infection, and may range from a simple catarrh to gonerene of the wall of the appendix. oncretions may, as a result of catarrhal inflammation, be formed in the tube from its feecal' contents, resembling date or cherry stones, for which they have been mistaken. Sudden pain, tenderne in the lower part of the right side of the abdomen, and often vomiting, are the first symptoms. The treatment, in slight cases, with the symptoms improving within twenty-four hours, is te relieve the pain with warm fomentations or an ice-bag on the abdomen, and give nothing by the mouth but sips of hot water; and in severe cases, which are at improving, prompt and early opera i on. Switzerland, 1300 to 8000 ft. above sea level; divided into Outer Rhodes (Prot.), with cotton and linen-weaving and dyeing, and Inner Rhodes (R.C.), with agriculture. Area, 162 sq. miles. Pop. 1920, 69,950. (2) (47° 20’ N., 9° 25’ E.) capital of Inner Rhodes. Pop. 5000. tion, as distinguished from perceptions which pa unnoticed. Term due to Leibniz.