peritonitis

Variation 2: What famous magician born in 1874 passed away of peritonitis 52 years later?

I mean the idea here is the likelihood of it going away on its own vs the possibility of it to burst and cause peritonitis.

It's somewhat similar to the mutant behavior of FCoV, which can cause feline infectious peritonitis.

A toothpick did in the writer Sherwood Anderson, in his case by piercing part of the digestive track and bringing on peritonitis.

Failure to treat the intussusception eventually results in bowel perforation, peritonitis and potentially death.

Reed died of peritonitis after an appendectomy at the post in 1902.

What starts out as a relatively mild gastrointestinal infection eventually causes serious peritonitis (inflammation of the membrane lining the abdominal wall) in some animals.

In 1600 I could very well have died of peritonitis / infection without the surgery.

If you need convincing that this is possible, just read up on Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP), another corona virus that persists and ultimately kills a percentage of cats.

I had a burst appendix as a teenager, leading to peritonitis.

Note: It was close for me to just go away from my own hand, I was hit twice by a car, and about died from peritonitis.

At that stage I was severely anemic and had peritonitis.

I was "lucky" enough to be hospitalized for an appendicitis that degenerated into a peritonitis due to a wrong diagnosis just at the right time, that is, in the middle of a local tobacco crisis during a spring in the early 90s when cigarettes were so hard to find that either one knew someone in the black market or had to roll mashed cigar leftovers like I did just before getting ill.

On the plus side, a compound closely related to remdesivir (the drug to which remdesivir is the prodrug) showed great promise in curing this disorder (also known as FIP, Feline Infectious Peritonitis).

(reads article) This is not Covid-19, but for the Feline Coronavirus strain that was commonly referred to in the US as FIP, or Feline Infectious Peritonitis.