The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 24, 1900, Image 7
APPENDICITIS.
The Diiciup in Mnr? Frequent With
Youiic Tiiun Old.
Tlio vermiform appendix, inflammation
of which constitutes appendicitis,
is a curious little offshoot from the
large intestine near the point where it
is ioiued bv the small intestine. It is
a hollow tube about as thick as a leadpencil,
from an inch to several inches
length, which commuaicates with
the cavity of the large intestine but is
closed at its free extremity. Nobody
knows definitely what its use is, and
many think it has no nse at all.
It is a popular belief that inflam-mation
of the appendix is often caused
by the lodgment in it of a grape-seed
or some similar little body, but as a
matter of fact this very seldom occurs,
and no one need deprive himself of a
delicious and nourishing fruit from
auy such fear.
There are probably very few persons
of middle age who have not had
appeudicitis, but fortunately they did
not Know it. It is only when the in
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tlammation becomes severe, aim involves
the parts abont the appendix,
that violent symptoms appear, and
this occurs in only a small proportion
of case?.
The disease is more frequent with
the young than with the middie-aged
or old.
In mild cases the only symptom is
a slight dull or colicky paiu in or near
the right groin. When the iuflamraution'is
more severe, or extends to the
neighboring parts, the symptoms become
more pronounced. There is a
sharp pain in the abdomen, signs of
dyspepsia?loss of appetite, nausea or
vomiting, aud bowel disturbances?
are present, aud there is often slight
fever.
In tho most serious cases a sudden,
violent pain occurs, there is marked
fever, and tho patient is depressed
and presents all the signs of being
very ill Hiccough is often a distress- I
lag symptom.
The treatment of appendicitis is one
of the points upon which doctors disagree.
fjonie believe that iu nearly
every case u care will follow rest iu !
bed, a milk diet, cold applications to
the abdomeu and sedative remedies.
Others assert that an operation is
necessary in every instauce, and that
this should be performed the iustaut
a diagnosis of appendicitis is made,
before serious symptoms appear.
The proper course, here as elsewhere,
is ddnbtless the middle one,
for in rnaDy caseT au operation is absolutely
necessary to save life, while
in others recovery will take place without
subjecting the patient to this serious
risk. In any case a sufferer from
appendicitis is iu danger, and should
he uuder the constant care of his phy/
sioiau.?Youth's Compauiou.
Projectile Air.
Physicians in South Africa now
have another theory for explaining
away the charges made by both Briton
and Boer that the other is using explosive
bullets. The cxteusive laceration
often found in bullet wounds is
now said to be due to the air which
the bullet drives before it into the
wour.il. The existence of this phenomenon
tan bo proved easily. If a
round bullet be dropped into a glass
ff/Mrt flin hainrlif /\f o f ?> TV fppf
it will be seen that when the bullet
touches tho bottom a large bubble of
air will become detached and rise to
the surface. In this case the bubble
will usually be from ten to twenty
times the size of the bullet.
Now, a Manser bullet traveling at
high speed is said to carry before it a
bubble of compressed air of largo
dimensions. Experiments made by
a surgeon who tired a pistol ball into
a glass of water showed tbo bubble to
be one hundred times the size of the
ball. From tbe appearauee of the
wonnds and from these experiments
it is coiuluded that the mass of air
driven by a Mauser bullet explodes iu
the body of the wounded man with
sufficient force to cause extensive ;
laceration. This destructive air
bubble is well known to surgeons
under tbe name of projectile air.
8ta~e Snow Storms.
"Ton niieht not think it," said a
prominent glove manufacturer of
Paris to a representative of the New
York Commercial, "but the theatres
Lave to couie to our back door to get
material to help them out in their
beautiful stage effects. Waste glove
clippings ate now almost universally
used for making snow in winter
scenes. Every wanderer and outcast
you see shivering through these fierce
Siberian snow storms is perishing in
a shower of clippings of whito kid
glove material.
"Theatrical people tell me these
clippiugs of kid gloves are touch better
than the paper snow formerly
used. 1 think the superiority of kid
glove clippings over paper is that they
^ cling better to the clothing of the perishing
outcasts.
"The knowledge of this bit of stage
illusion rather destroys the effect of a
stagey snow storm forme, and I find
iuyself iuvolnutarily selecting plays
that have nothing but warm weather
iu them."?Glove Makers.
An EnsIUliman Un<!*r?tani1s.
"I understand Now York is ou an
islaudV" saiil the Englishman on his
way to this country for the first time.
"How long a journey is it %to the
Continent?"?New York fiun.
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Remedies
For disorders of tho
feminine organs have
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and enormous sale beoauso
of the permanent
good they have done and
are doing for the women
of this countrym
If all ailing or suffering
women could be made
to understand how absolutely
true are the
statements about Lydia Em
Finkham's Vegetable
Compound, their sufferings
would endm
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RICH IN RESOURCES
Some Splendid Opportunities Are Open
in the Australian Colonies.
Queensland is nraetically undevel
oped as yet. and Jt is only 40 years old.
that having been the time since its
separation as a colony. It contains
nearly 700.000 square miles, and has
only 500,000 population. North Queensland
has a population of only 100,000,
and yet it is an exceedingly rich section
in natural resources. Charter
Towers, 82 miles west of Townsville.
the principal gold mining section, produced
457,850 ounces of gold in 1898,
of the value of $5,784,720, and the total
output of gold for the colony during
the past year was 920,048 ounces, valued
at $13,751,775. The colony has
produced, up to date, minerals to the
value of $225,000,000. Copper, silver.tin,
etc., are some of the minerals existing
in large quantities. Within the next
few years there will be a tremendous
output of copper, as a railroad is being
built to the very rich Chilagoe mines.
North Queensland is a great grazing
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to grazing, the profit on sheep
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numbers of sheep ranches on which,
there are 100,000 sheep, one of which
has 1,230,000 head. Cattle raising is
also extensively engaged in, the exports
of cattle from the northern portion
of the colony alone being 2,500
head a day for ten months in the year.
A herder can sell cattle at?with a
profit?$3 a head, and when he gets
$10, as he often does, the profit is very
great.?Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune.
Shall Craduates Wear Black Cowns?
SIIAfJ* Graduates Wear Black uowns
Tlie question of the abandonment of
the white dress in which "the sweet
girl graduate" Ls wont to appear is
agitating the sewn young larlies or the
senior class of the Central High School
of South Bethlehem, Penr,.
Some of the young ladies favor the
adoption of the college cap and black
gown, while others cling to the timehonored
skirts and flowers. The seven
young ladies are willing to don the
caps ami gown if their Mlow classmates
of the other sex do likewise.
Timber Trees Advancing.
Prof. C. E. Bessey announces in a
letter to Science, that he has obtained
evidence that trees, including such species
as oak. hickory, willow, cottonwood.
elm and box elder, are rapidly
advancing in Eastern Nebraska. The
areas covered by them are gradually
creeping up the courses of the streams
and spreading out internally. In some
cases the "tree belt" along rivers has,
within twenty-five years, increased in
width from 100 feet to half a mile, and
even a mno.
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55%VQ health, good he
joyment. Bow<
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you get a gooc
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J-?J&i. of people are do<
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) yV /f \A get better till th?
yO \ f how it is?yot
ZT L_) / f I I suffer with a sli|
\ Jk\y l\Jj mouth mornings
II I during the day/
.I worse untill th
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/ has been driven
/ bowels with CA
slightest irregul.
natural, easy m
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Shopping in Scotland.
The Scotch have their own idea of
a "bargain day." and their view is not ,
without a touch of shrewdness. A
London paper describes a conversation
between an English matron and
Mr. Angus Mclvcr. I
"I suppose, Mr. Melver." said she,
"that they have bargain days in CJlaa- .
gow ?"
"Ma conscience, no! It wad na do
aval"
Indeed!" replied the la.ly. "Why,
I thought bargain days would just suit
your people!"
"YVeel," said he, "that's .iuis: It. It t
wad suit them ower wee!. If they
had bargain days, nnebody wad buy
ouything on the ither days, ye ken!" j
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The Execution of Lead.
"While Presbytery had been fighting
Its victorious battle in the Jerusalem '
Chamber," writes John <Morley In the
February Century, "the man whose bad (
steering had wrecked his church was
sent to the block. The execution of
Archbishop Laud (January 10, 1645) is
the best of all the illustrations of the
hard temper of the time. Laud wag
more than seventy years old. He had
been for nearly five*years safe under
lock and key in the Tower. His claws
were effectually clipped, and it was
certain that he would never again be
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such mischief as he could do would be
too trivial to be worth thinking of in
sight of such a general catastrophe as
could alone make the old man's return
to power possible. The execution of
Strafford may be defended as a great
act of retaliation or prevention, done
with grave political purpose. So, plausibly
or otherwise, may the execution of
King Charles. No 3uch high considerations
justify the execution of Laud,
several years after he had committed
the last of his imputed offenses and
had been stripped of all power of ever
committing more. It is not necessary
that we should echo Dr. Johnson's
lines about Rebellion's vengeful talons
seizing on Laud, and Art and Genius
weeping round his tomb; but if we
rend the veil of romance from the
Cavalier, we are bound not to be overdazzled
by the halo of sanctity In the
Roundhead."
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