"Vermiform" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... who will study at length the relative respectability of the inward parts of man—his pipes and bellows, his liver and lights. The inquiry will take him far into the twilight zones of psychology. Why is the vermiform appendix so much more virtuous and dignified than its next-door neighbor, the caecum? Considered physiologically, anatomically, pathologically, surgically, the caecum is the decenter of the two. It has more cleanly habits; it is more beautiful; ...
— A Book of Burlesques • H. L. Mencken |
