My guess, ... The liver.  

As far as the appendix is concerned, it has no useful purpose.
[That's why it is called the appendix!  (When schools were better 
than they are now.  I was taught this in grade school.  I'm no 
doctor of course.)]

The other Tracy


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy HPTraderOnline [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> 
> Where do the toxins collect, if the appendix is gone?  Does 
> it save you from
> a toxic buildup, or does it cause toxins to build up?
> 
> Guy
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Barnes" <[log in to unmask]>
> 
> > I recently went in for colon cancer surgery and they 
> removed my appendix
> > while they were at it.
> >
> > But that was a good thing.  Two surgeries for the price of 1.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Mc Coy [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:26 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: 100 Years
> > Sensitivity: Confidential
> >
> >
> > Every year in the U.S. more than 100,000 people die as a 
> direct result of
> > mistakes made by doctors.
> > In addition to that, thousands more are injured/maimed.
> > Surgical patients get the wrong organs removed, the wrong 
> lims amputated.
> > There are also those who end up going in for something like 
> a tonsilectomy
> > and get a leg amputated because someone mixed the charts up.
> >
> > jm
> > >
> > > From: Tracy Pierce <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Date: 2002/03/06 Wed AM 11:16:17 EST
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: 100 Years
> > >
> > > I rather doubt that RNader said "killed by doctors".  It 
> would be a
> valid
> > > and inflammatory statistic to point out that huge numbers 
> of people die
> > when
> > > "in the care of doctors", but I don't know if that's 
> Nader's style or
> not.
> > >
> > > More people should emulate Woody Allen's immortality 
> ploy: don't die!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Guy HPTraderOnline [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:41 AM
> > > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > > Subject: Re: OT: 100 Years
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I just went to a talk on Homeopathic medicine last night.
> > > > The speaker said
> > > > that at the turn of the last century, you could get a
> > > > homeopathic health kit
> > > > in the Sears catalog.  The AMA convinced politicians that
> > > > they were the
> > > > going concern and every other attempt at healing amounted to
> > > > quackery.  I
> > > > heard a while ago, Ralph Nader said that more people are
> > > > killed each year by
> > > > doctors than the total number of American soldiers who died
> > > > in the Vietnam
> > > > Conflict.
> > > >
> > > > Guy
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Andreas Schmidt" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > >
> > > > > Ninety percent of all U.S. Physicians  had no college 
> education.
> > > > Instead, they attended medical schools,  many of which were
> > > > > condemned in the press and by the government as  
> "substandard."
> > > > >

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