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Hodgkin's disease is a cancerlike swelling of the lymph nodes and lymphoid tissue, which exists throughout the body. The victims-often young people-live, on an average, for about 30 months after the disease takes hold. The accepted treatment at present is X rays or nitrogen mustard (TIME, Oct. 21). Both are palliatives, offer no hope of cure...
...appendicitis occur at the extremes of life, two-thirds of the deaths from the disease occur before 10 and after 40. Why this is so Surgeon Maes explained last week. The character of the appendix changes as people grow older. In the young the organ contains an abundance of lymphoid tissue, which renders it a particularly good harborer for germs. In the old the appendix largely loses its lymphoid character. Its risks then grow from diseases of its blood vessels. "In the young patient, therefore, local infection predominates, and the resulting disease is fundamentally suppurative, with perforation and abscess formation...