THE KING'S COMPLAINT.
An illustrated diotionarv of medicine by George M. Gould, AM.., M.D., gives the following with reference to perityphlitis (pronounced per-it-if-li-tis): "Inflammation of the peritoneum surrounding the caecum: This is a disease most frequently encountered in the young and in males. It is usually due to some inflammatory disease of the vermiform appendix. It is m-arked by pain in the right iliac fossa, and a tumour,, elongated, sausage-shaped, dull on percussion, and very tender in the same region. It may give rise to general peritonitis from eseope of pus into the general peritoneal cavity. The abscess may burst through the abdominal wall into the bowel, bladder or pleural cavity."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1902, Page 5
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THE KING'S COMPLAINT.
Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1902, Page 5
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