A Case of Infantile Biliary Cirrhosis
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The patient was a Hindu male child of good family, aged thirteen months and the last child of a family of ten children, of whom one child had died in the fourth month of infancy and another of Spanish influenza in its eighth month in 1918, the rest of the family enjoying quite good health. In April 1923 the patient, who seemed in quite good health up to that time, got fever and diarrhoea which were attributed to teething. There was some improvement in his complaint under treatment but the child was daily going downhill, losing weight as well as appetite and becoming pale in colour and thin. The temperature was of a quite irregular intermittent type, ranging between normal and 102?F. It would at timies come down t$ normal with
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