Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1908 — Young Boy is Operated Upon for Appendicitis. [ARTICLE]

Young Boy is Operated Upon for Appendicitis.

: ■ ~ 1 Carl Worden, 16 years of age, and son of the widow of Chas. Worden, was operated upon Tuesday evening at the home of his mother in Rensselaer for appendicitis. The local physician of the Worden boy discovered early* Tuesday .....that the appendix had ruptured and the certain result was that peritonitis would set in unless he was operated upon without delay, so Dr. Byron Robinson, of Chicago, who is we’l known by reason of frequent operations he has performed for the local physicians in past years, was sent for and he performed the operation in the presence of the family physician and the other doctors of the city who had been invited to be present. It was found that the appendix had shifted from its normal position on the right of the abdomen to the left side, and the operation was therefore somewhat more difficult than the ordinary one for the ’ removal of the appendix. Following the operation the young man raillied very satisfactorily; notwithstanding tie fact that his chances are orily about one to four' for recovery, he seems to be holding his own very well. His father died about fifteen years ago from the same disease, not having been operated upon.