“…Spontaneous intraperitoneal haemorrhage-i.e., that occurring without any obvious cause such as cirrhosis of the liver (James, 1930) and rupture of aneurysm-has been recorded in 26 cases* 19 collected by Berk, Rothschild, and Doanet (1941), three reported by Marks and Freedlander (1945), and one each by Keusenhoff (1934), Matheson (1934, Crile andNewell (1940), andHaugen (1944).…”