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THE EARLIEST RECOGNITION OF APPENDICITIS—AGAIN

1923; American Medical Association; Volume: 80; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/jama.1923.02640350054033

1538-3598

Leonard L. Mackall,

History of Medicine Studies

To the Editor: —Apparently Dr. R. D. Rudolf of Toronto was the first to call attention to the interesting fact that Lorenz Heister seems to have been the first to describe a case of typical appendicitis, namely, in his account of a postmortem performed by him publicly at Altdorf in November, 1711. Dr. Rudolf's paper ( Canad. M. A. J ., May, 1913) reprints in full this curious "Observation CX" from what he says is "a translation by a Dr. Daniel Cox, of London, under date of 1755, and the book is entitled 'Heister's Cases in Surgery.'" Dr. Rudolf gives the title in this form because the title-page and following leaves were lacking in his copy (which he kindly lent to Sir William Osler, who showed it to me when I showed him the original). In fact, the English title-page reads: Medical, Chirurgical, and Anatomical Cases and Observations. By Laurence Heister, M.D.,