Induced Malaria with Heavy Malignant Tertian Infection
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Ram Lal, a Hindu male, 45 years old, was admitted into the Carmichael Hospital for Tropical Diseases on 27th February, 1941, for malaria therapy. His lower extremities showed signs of great weakness. Examination of blood showed a moderately positive Wassermann reaction. Physical examination revealed the following findings :?Tongue coated; lungs moist and dry sounds all over both lungs; liver slightly enlarged; spleen not palpable; heart nothing abnormal noted; bowels loaded; lower extremities, signs of great weakness in both. Knee jerk absent on the right and somewhat brisk
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A Study of Induced Malignant Tertian Malaria *James, S. P., Nicol, W. D., and Shute, P. G. (1932). A study of induced malignant tertian malaria. Proc. Roy. Soc. Med., XXV, No. 8, June, 1932. Sect. Trop. Dis. and Parasit., p. 1153.
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