Scientists and doctors at Duke University have discovered the use of the appendix. It grows good germs for your digestive system. There is more bacteria in the human body than human. Remember that the next time you use sanitizing cleanser. You're killing what is essentially you.
Most of those microbes that inhabit you with you are helpful and are used to digest food. The appendix acts a nuclear bomb shelter, protecting the body's store of germs from cholera and the like. Antibiotics kill much of our gut flora, making many illnesses capable of destroying the balance within our bodies. When the essential bacteria are killed off due to illness, the appendix kicks in and makes up a batch of germs so we can get back to digesting.
Some people out there don't have appendixes. Some people had their appendixes taken out for charity or on a bet. What will happen to those people?
If you don't have an appendix, you'd better make some friends. The only way you're going to be able to get some germs back into your belly is by contracting them from a friend or loved one. Unless you're a mountain man or drifter, you'll probably be all right without an appendix. In fact, if the appendix causes any trouble, doctors still recommend its removal.
"Just because it has a purpose," said one doctor. "Doesn't mean we like it."
If your appendix has been hoisted by its own petard and become infected, than you may want to see a general surgeon. If you want to know what a petard is than you should see a linguist, a war historian or a Shakespeare scholar.
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