Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 41: March, 1938

In a series of over cases of acute appendicitis studied by the Philadelphia Health Department, deaths were just twice as frequent in cases given one laxative, and six times as frequent in cases. In which more than one laxative was iven as compared with cases in W%ich no laxatives had been used.

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