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thirteen cases. From his examination of appendices removed for 
appendicitis, he found 10 cases out of 27 infected with Oxyuris 
(37 %). 
In the same way Railliet (1911) found the worm 14 times in 33 cases 
of appendicitis (42 %), and also 58 times in a series of 119 cases (48 %) ; 
Schloss (1910) found the threadworm present in 7 % of healthy children 
living on the east side of New York City. Russell and Bulkley (1912), 
from a study of 148 unselected appendices from appendicectomies of 
children between the ages of two and fifteen, state that of these 19 were 
normal, and of the remaining 129, parasites were found in 19, of which 
17 had Oxyuris infection, and two had Trichocephalus infection. The 
number of worms present varied from one to thirty-five. In eight 
cases the males outnumbered the females. Out of 19 normal appendices, 
parasites ( Oxyuris) were found in three. Four adult cases of Oxyuris 
appendicitis were also examined. They classify their cases in the 
following manner : 
1. 
Acute catarrhal appendicitis, 
(a) Children 
Oxyuris 
14 
Trichoceph. 
1 
No infection 
5 
Total 
20 
\b) Adults 
4 
0 
0 
4 
2. 
Chronic appendicitis 
0 
0 
20 
20 
3. 
Acute suppurative 
0 
0 
25 
25 
4. 
Acute gangrenous 
3 
1 
60 
64 
5. 
Normal appendices 
3 
0 
16 
19 
24 2 126 152 
Ney (1912) cites two cases of appendicitis in which there were in the 
one case, two, and in the other, five Oxyuris in the appendices. He 
also reports that, in a series of 100 appendices removed at the Hebrew 
Hospital, only three contained threadworms. 
In the Clinical Records of the Edinburgh Medical Journal (1913) 
details are given of 14 cases in which various nematodes were found in 
the appendix. These cases may be summarised : 
Ten Cases 
of Appendicitis. 
No. 
Sex of patient Age (years) 
No. of Oxyuris found 
Type of appendicitis 
1 
M 
8 
Large number 
Acute 
2 
M 
14 
20-30 
99 
3 
M 
8 
Large number 
Recurrent 
4 
M 
38 
Several worms 
99 
5 
F 
15 
7-8 
99 
6 
M 
9 
Numerous worms 
99 
7 
M 
18 
Large number 
Chronic 
8 
F 
15 
99 
99 
9 
M 
19 
Numerous worms 
9 
99 * 
10 
F 
21 
99 
9 ? 
