A Case of Purulent, Puerperal Peritonitis, Successfully Treated by Incision and Drainage

Abstract

a young American woman, had a short and easy labor with her second child early in November, 1887. A chill, four or five days later, was the first sign of impending trouble. For several weeks there was continual fever, profuse sweating followed by dryness of the skin and progressive emaciation, and towards the end of that time, abscesses appeared in the lower left arm, all nourishment was vomited,