Reginald Heber Fitz, The Exponent of Appendicitis
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A brief history of appendicitis: familiar names and interesting patients.
is seen in his work, which was based largely on the dissection of primates.^ However, he did comment on right lower quadrant pain in his wrifing. He noted that "the colic passion, situated in the large bowel, was found below the umbilicus, more often on the right, and was very apt to recur." At that time, surgical treatment was often delayed until the last possible moment when the abscess was a...
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Reginald H. Fitz, M.D. Pp. x., 1088. Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott Company. 1897. The aim of this work is to view the practice of medicine simultaneously from the pathologic and therapeutic points of view. All the therapeutic portions of the book have been written by Dr. Wood; the more especially pathological parts are from the pen of Dr. Fitz. These two professors, the one of Therapeutics at...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
دوره 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1937