From:
Joshua Frederick (Frederick) Parsons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 26
Summary:
Reports case of a girl’s sudden death when a large abscess, formed by a cherry-stone in the vermiform appendix, burst into the peritoneum. Perhaps relevant to Descent [2d ed., pp. 20–1].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project