A Case of Malarial Hæmoptysis
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Casks of haemoptysis clue to malarial infection must be exceedingly rare, yet the case about to be recorded appears to be one. During the past 61 years I have had occasion to treat 1,056 cases of acute malaria and 6,388 of chronic malaria, yet I have not previously seen haemoptysis, apparently due to malarial infection. In Osier and McCrae's System of Medicine,* where a comprehensive list of twenty groups of causes of haemoptysis is given, including even hysteria as a cause, malaria is not mentioned. Herbert
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