Excerpt from The Caecal Folds and Fossae and the Topographical Anatomy of the Vermiform Appendix

As the vermiform appendix has, within recent years, assumed a clinical importance entirely incommensurate with its insignifi¢ cant proportions, it has seemed advisable to investigate any anatomical problems which may throw light upon such a treacherous disease as appendicitis. The present work is an attempt to solve, and to simplify the description of the caecal folds and fossae, and therefore indirectly the relations of the vermiform appendix.

The pericaecal folds and fossae may be of interest only to the anatomist, but there can be no question as to the practical signifi cance to the surgeon of the retro-colic fossae. An appendix lying in one or other of these fossae, may not only predispose to appendicitis, but may preclude the re moval of such an appendix.

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