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APPENDICITIS is an inflammation around the cæeum, involving the vermiform appendage, and frequently associated with perforative ulceration. Previous to 1900, the disease was generally described under the names ‘typhlitis’ and ‘perityphlitis’. The modern term ‘appendicitis’ began to be used in America between 1890 and 1900, and as a cause of death it first appears in the Registrar-General's annual report for 1901.
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The Causation of Appendicitis. Nature 144, 452 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144452b0
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