Further Cases of Bubonic Plague Contracted at Plague Necropsies
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ed signs of suppuration on April 28th and four ounces of pus were let out by incision. "On May 2nd,symptoms of pneumonia appeared and he coughed up frothy blood. He died on May 3rd, fourteenth day from the commencement of the attack. Medical opinion was divided over this case, some holding that it was a case of ordinary septicaemia,and others that it was plague septicaemia. Taking into consideration the fact that he had done a large proportion of the post mortem at the morgue for fifteen years, and had been known to have cut himself in the most
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