APPENDICITIS

is inflammation of the vyermiform are The disease was formerly called “ peri-typhlitis.”’ ero is a pocket-like protrusion from the large bowel; the first hag of this protrusion is large and calfed the cecum, the terminal portion is narrow and round like a worm, blind at the far end, white in colour, three inches long, and containing a cavity that will only admit a stout bristle. This terminal portion is the vermiform 2 aa (Vermiform means worm-like). By placing the hand in the upper part of the right trouser pocket the fingers are about over it. The cavity of the appendix secretes mucus or slime. If the outlet into the cwxcum gets blocked, the mucus is pent up in the ee and dries, to form a body formerly mistaken for a cherry-stone. It is clear that a cherrystone cannot make its way into tho appendix, because it only admits a stout bristle. In addition to the formation [s. 332]