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Sawbones: Appendicitis

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

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What Are the Halen and the Appendicitis?

The pain will start in the middle of your abdomen and then migrate down to that right lower quadrant. You can get nausea and vomiting, fevers, chills, diarrhea, constipation if it ruptures. Galen wrote about the condition appendicitis but nobody was ever going to do surgery. The best course of action was thought to be to just wait until a fistula would form.

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