Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1913 — MRS. WILLIAM ELDRIDGE UNDERWENT OPERATION [ARTICLE]

MRS. WILLIAM ELDRIDGE UNDERWENT OPERATION

Wife of Well Known Farmer in Serious Condition When Relieved by Surgeon’s Knife. Mrs. William Eldridge, on the C. G. Spitler farm near Pleasant Ridge, was operated on Saturday evening for appendicitis. She had been sick since Thursday but the appendicitis condition did not develope until Saturday morning and a surgeon, was at once sent for and arrived from Chicago on the milk train and the operation took place as soon as possible thereafter. A badly perforated appendix, an abscess formed about it, and a gangrenous condition, were complications that made the operation very difficult and the outcome a matter of some uncertainty. A trained nurse is attending the case. Drain-’ age was established and the incision will not be closed until the pus is thoroughly drained off and this will make her restoration to health a very slow process. (