Acute appendicitis in Japanese soldiers in Burma: support for the “fibre” theory
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the last three months of 1946 and the first quarter of 1947, the late Anand Pardhy and I were the graded surgeon and graded physician in a CCS (Casualty Clearing Station) which was acting as a static hospital in the small town of Prome, on the Irrawaddy, in South Burma. In the same area was a camp of 1077 Japanese soldiers awaiting repatriation. They had their own medical officers and sick bay but cases requiring surgery and the more severely ill medical cases were admitted to the CCS. During this period, we admitted from the Japanese camp 10 cases of acute appendicitis, or one case every 2–3 weeks. At the beginning I assisted Pardhy but became so familiar with the technique that I was allowed to do the operation, with Anand Pardhy assisting. We were intrigued by the high incidence of appendicitis in the Japanese soldiers and thought …
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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