INFLAMMATION of the PERITONEUM lining the ABDOMINAL CAVITY as the result of infectious, autoimmune, or chemical processes. Primary peritonitis is due to infection of the PERITONEAL CAVITY via hematogenous or lymphatic spread and without intra-abdominal source. Secondary peritonitis arises from the ABDOMINAL CAVITY itself through RUPTURE or ABSCESS of intra-abdominal organs.
    

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Evil doctors maltreating a patient. Etching by James Ensor, 1895.

Cullen's Lectures on the Practice of Medicine

The bacteriology of peritonitis / by L.S. Dudgeon and Percy W.G. Sargent.

Case of peritonitis from bursting of an abscess : with post-mortem examination of the body / by Robert Smith.

Tracts on delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and on some other internal inflammatory affections, and on the gout / by Thomas Sutton.

Spilsbury, Sir Bernard (1877-1947), Forensic Pathologist

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Cullen's Lectures on the Practice of Medicine

The bacteriology of peritonitis / by L.S. Dudgeon and Percy W.G. Sargent.

Case of peritonitis from bursting of an abscess : with post-mortem examination of the body / by Robert Smith.

Tracts on delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and on some other internal inflammatory affections, and on the gout / by Thomas Sutton.

Spilsbury, Sir Bernard (1877-1947), Forensic Pathologist