Excerpt from Southern California Practitioner, 1920, Vol. 35 Of course, in all cases where there is a widespread tubercular process going on, it would not be surprising if this membrane should share in a general condition. But I seriously doubt if the peritoneum takes on infection early from the lung as a rule. In other words my belief is that the infection of the peritoneum usually rises from other local conditions or as a primary infection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.