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Title: Medical communications of the Massachusetts Medical Society
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Massachusetts Medical Society
Subjects: Medicine Medicine
Publisher: Boston : Printed for the Society
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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Strictured Vicious appendix Fig. 2. In this class previous inflammation in the proximal portion has leftcicatricial stenosis just as in stricture of the urethra. As long as there isactive mucous membrane distal to the stricture there will be a tendency torecurrent inflammatory attacks. This class includes cases of hard concretions and retained muco-pus orhydrops. If strictures were not present the concretions would be dis-charged. These are healing appendices for eventually repeated inflamma-tion would destroy all the mucosa. Strictures are most common at the points of kinking. Consecutive operations for chronic appendicitis. 245
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Obliteratedor safe a^endjx* Fig. 3. This class represents the healed or partially healed appendix. Oblitera-tion is most common at the tip. The further the obliteration has progressedfrom the tip the greater the safety of the individual. Obliteration meansthat the mucosa has been destroyed by previous inflammation and that thedischarge has escaped through the unobstructed lumen. There is no good Indian but a dead Indian and there is no safe appendixbut a completely obliterated one. 246 OBSERVATIONS ON A SERIES OF NINETY-EIGHT

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