A Case of Typhoid Septicæmia without Typhoid Ulcers
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tures were frequently asked in examinations. The association in one's mind between typhoid fever and the typhoid ulcer is so close that it is almost impossible to think of the former without visualizing the latter; yet mild cases of typhoid infection without intestinal ulcers are probably not uncommon. Severe typhoid fever without lesions in the intestine is extremely rare, but several instances of this anomalous form of the disease have been brought to notice. Recently Zweig (1922) reported the fatal case of a
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