"Morphine Injector's Septicæmia" ("Whitmore's Disease")
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In 1912, Major Whitmore, i.m.s., first described* the pathological anatomy and aetiology of a disease that is met with fairly frequently in Rangoon. It was provisionally termed by him " Morphine Injector's Septica3mia." Since his account appeared it might have been expected that observers in other parts of India and elsewhere would have recorded cases, but the only reference I have come across is a brief note in Castellani's " Text-book," where it is called " Whitmore's Fever," and is said to resemble glanders. My object in writing this note is to direct the
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