Progress in Dermatology: Pellagra

Abstract

Through the kindness of my father, the case was turned over to me. I found a lad who presented typical signs of general peritonitis; temperature 101, pulse 112, of a distinctly poor quality, forehead and face bathed in perspiration, stercoraceous vomiting, and a perfectly board-like abdomen with shifting dullness. Operation was at once decided on and was done by the light of a small hand lamp, with the patient on the kitchen table.As 1 opened the abdomen, there gushed forth a moderate amount of turbid, fecal-stained matter, fluid, and somewhat foul-smelling. As all the symptoms had been in the region of the appendix, I naturally first