PNEUMOCOCCIC AND STREPTOCOCCIC PERITONITIS
- 9 January 1926
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 86 (2) , 99-104
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1926.02670280019006
Abstract
Pneumococcic and streptococcic peritonitis are the most terrible abdominal catastrophes of infancy and early childhood. The infection is most formidable, being associated with the highest scale of mortality. All the cases forming the basis of this paper were observed within the last three years. The disease under discussion is largely confined to infancy and early childhood and is not as infrequent as commonly supposed, constituting about 10 per cent of the abdominal emergencies of childhood. It merits the serious study of the pediatrician, internist, surgeon and laboratory research worker for several reasons: first, its mortality of 100 per cent places it practically at the head of all the death dealing diseases affecting the young. Secondly, the disease appears to be idiopathic. Our experience at present would indicate that neither medicine nor surgery has anything definite to offer in the salvation of these children. Lastly, it is necessary that the recognitionKeywords
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