SURGERY
As a result of medical bungling an ordinary
indisposition of the digestive apparatus/ often
results in a more serious trouble. The trouble
generally starts with inflammation of the stomach or
duodenum. The inflammations develop into ulcers/
and when conditions become worse still, perforation
might take place-
It is generally supposed among the allopaths
and their very large following that surgery is the
only hope in cases of gastric or duodenal ulcers.
But it is hardly understood that the resort to surgery
is itself an admission of the failure of allopathy to
cure the trouble in its initial stages.
Excepting in very rare cases (which would be
rarer still but for medical bungling) surgery is an
unwarranted interference with Nature and it'
generally results in a permanent injury to the
patient. Just a few days prior to the writing of these
pages the writer met an unfortumate invalid who
had a tragic story to tell of the cruel role played by
doctors and suigeons in his life. Dyspepsia was at
the root of all his troubles. But the doctors, as
usual tried to pick out some particular organ and
put the whole blame on that. When the doctors
had failed, the surgeon came in. He cut open the
patient's abdomen and made a careful examination;
there was nothing wrong paiticularly. However the
surgeon removed the appendix/ the idea being that
some organ must * be removed once the abdomen
had been cut open. " I cannot find out what is
exactly wrong with you; any how as a matter of
trial/ I have cut out the appendix. Let us hope
that you will improve/' Unfortunately, the patient
got worse, and returned to the surgeon after