“Ah!”
“It was a private case of old Meyerovitch’s, and he decided on immediate operation. Now Meyerovitch was one of the few really good surgeons who wouldn’t use either the McBurney or Kamerer incision for appendicitis. He just cut down over the trouble and through everything in one line.”
“Fool!”
“Most of us thought so then, but somehow Meyerovitch always got good results—always.”
“Pure accident.”
“Perhaps so. But, anyhow, when little Ina was under the anaesthetic, and Meyerovitch had his knife in one hand—his left, by the way—and was testing the tension of the abdomen with the other hand, he said, ‘I will need plenty of room here.’ And then he surprised us all by making a reversed Senn incision.”
“I don’t seem to remember that incision,” said Carlson, after a slight pause. “What is it?”
“An S-shaped incision devised by Nicholas Senn when he was Professor of Surgery at Rush Medical College. You young fellows in New York don’t as a rule know about that incision.”
“But, Edwards, as I remember, Senn recommended the McBurney method in his book.”