What condition, first described by Reginald Fitz in 1886 and characterised by inflammation of the blind-ended tube connected to the cecum, requires an immediate operation to prevent rupture of the tube and death from (mainly) peritonitis and shock?
Reginald Heber Fitz abdominal disorders that had previously been variously diagnosed and showed that they all involved a diseased appendix. He also introduced the term appendicitis. Dozens of names had previously been used for what had been thought to be a variety of diseases. He also served as physician to the Boston Dispensary in 1871–1882 and to the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1887 to 1908. In 1894, he was president of the Association of American Physicians. He died in 1913. Reginald Heber Fitz Reginald Heber Fitz (1843–1913) was an American physician. Reginald Heber Fitz was born in 1843 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He graduated
Shock tube biomedical research to study how biological specimens are affected by blast waves. A shock wave inside a shock tube may be generated by a small explosion (blast-driven) or by the buildup of high pressures which cause diaphragm(s) to burst and a shock wave to propagate down the shock tube (compressed-gas driven). An early study of compression driven shock tubes was published in 1899 by French scientist Paul Vieille, though the apparatus was not called a shock tube until the 1940s. In the 1940s, interest revived and shock tubes were increasingly used to study the flow of fast moving gases over