Treatment of Tuberculous Peritonitis in Adults
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By F. M. Caird, F.R.C.S., Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh Tuberculous peritonitis is familiar to us as a disease of childhoou and infancy. It is rarer in adult life. Thus in the years fr?nl March igoo to the end of 1910, of 6366 adults admitted to the general surgical wards under my charge in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary we only met with 31 cases of tuberculous peritonitis 111 patients between thirteen and sixty years of age. We propose discussing and tabulating these cases, presuming that in every instance definite evidence of the nature of the lesion was established*
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