Note on a Case of Pneumococcal Peritonitis at the Eighth Month of Pregnancy *Read 14th March 1923.

Case.?A woman, Mrs E., aged 23, ii-para, 8 months pregnant with her second child, admitted to Ward 34 Royal Infirmary, on 18th January 1923, late at night. Till four days before admission the patient had been perfectly well. Her symptoms arose insidiously, starting with intermittent grinding pains in the lumbar region, and a feeling of being generally out of sorts. By the second day pain was more severe and constant, spreading now to the flanks and into the front of the abdomen, * Read 14th March 192;