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Excerpt from Immunity in Health: The Function of the Tonsils and Other Subepithelial Lymphatic Glands in the Bodily Economy
As to their function, it has hardly ever been conceded that the subepithelial glands are of net utility. Darwin in 1874 wrote that the appendix was useless. Treves in 1885 spoke of it's very slight physiological import ance, and in 1890 had hardened himself to write it down as useless and functionless. Macewen in 1904 was almost the first to suggest that there might well be a function. Keetley was sufficiently imbued with the idea of a value for the appendix to propose his operation of transplanting the appendix into the abdo minal wall instead of appendicectomy in certain cases, and Edred Corner (1912) and Keith (1912) have each written favourably of the activities of the appendix.
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