Clinical Observations on Malaria Cases with Dangerous Cerebral Manifestations
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an apparently healthy sleep into deep coma; or how viciously a pernicious malaria infection may hide itself behind a very varied clinical picture resembling a score of different conditions of almost any organ or system of the body. Cerebral malaria has been diagnosed as cerebrospinal meningitis; and in this journal only recently attention has been drawn to the fact that even the function and structure of the
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