Pneumococcus peritonitis : paper read in the Section of Pathology, at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association, Cheltenham, July-August, 1901 / by J.H. Bryant.

  • Bryant, John Henry.
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[1901]
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Credit: Pneumococcus peritonitis : paper read in the Section of Pathology, at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association, Cheltenham, July-August, 1901 / by J.H. Bryant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Blackburn in bis thesis mentions that Nettcr stated that of 151 pneumococcus infections noted by him there were only two in which the peritoneum was affected, and these two were in children. There is a form of peritonitis which has been, and is now, sometimes classed as idiopathic, a form in which no obvious primary lesion can be found to account for the inflammation of the peritoneum. I am strongly of opinion that these cases are nearly all, if not all, examples of pneumococcus infection. As far as peritonitis is concerned, the term “ idiopathic” ought never to be applied to any case unless most careful and exhaustive histological and bacterio- logical examinations have been carried out with negative results and inoculation experiments have failed to show the presence of a pathogenic organism. The following is an ac- count of my cases. I will read them in the order in which they occur s >aSed 5 years, was admitted on May 20U1, 1900, under fnvnfnPit,t for diarrhoea and vomiting. She had been a child but. was subject to colds. When sixteen months o £ ‘ to sue nau an attack of whooping-cough, and when three years measles.