Chronic Dysenteric Peritonitis as the Probable Cause of a Common Form of Ascites in the Tropics
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In a note in the Indian Medical Gazette of September, 1921, one of us (J. W. D. M.) brought forward evidence which pointed to chronic peritonitis resulting from bacillary dysentery as being the cause of the commonest form of ascites in India. Ascites which requires repeated tapping is a very common condition in India. It is usually regarded as being caused by cirrhosis of the liver, but the evidence on which this view is based is very slender. The victims on the whole are not
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