Peter Attia· MD
if you had a ruptured appendicitis and you know a ruptured appendicitis carries with it a very high mortality but there are some ways to survive it without any biotics without anything and um this was even known hundreds of years ago when people were making long Hall Journeys across the ocean you know if you had rupted appendix in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when you're halfway between Spain and the Americas kind of so um but what they realized was if you put the person on their right side down tilted slightly head up all of the pus that was coming out of that ruptured appendix would at least wall off in the lower part of the right abdomen as opposed to spread throughout the entire abdomen and there was at least you'd increase the odds that it would form this fous capsule around it that would wall off