peritonitis• It was acuteperitonitis, and he was taken back to Wrexham hospital - this time, obviously, as an in-patient.• Kilvert died in Bredwardine of peritonitis 23 September 1879, ten days after their return from the honeymoon.• The patientdescribed by Boustany etal had a cytochrome c oxidase deficiency and a long illness before she eventually died of peritonitis.• Having survivedperitonitis and a brainhaemorrhage on top of an inoperablecancer, who was to speculate?• If the infection is unchecked, peritonitis may follow and gonorrhoea becomes a life-threateningemergency.• This increase in water solubility made possible an invitro incubation test with intraperitoneal pus or fluid from patients with peritonitis.• This test was carried out on six patients with peritonitis, and the severity of bacterial peritonitis was expressed quantitatively.
Originperitonitis
(1700-1800)peritoneum“inside wall of the abdomen”((16-21 centuries)) (from Late Latin, from Greek) + -itis