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Acute Encephalitis
Dr. J. Macrae: Mrs. C., aged 57 years, was admitted to Ham Green Hospital under my care on nth August last as a case of pyrexia of unknown origin. She had a history of headache and vomiting for 10 days and of a pyrexia reaching ioi-io2?F during the previous two days. The day before she came to hospital she was considerably confused. She had been attended by two of a partnership of general pract...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 1912
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(01)68081-4