A Case of Endocarditis Treated with Polyvalent Antistreptococcus Serum
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(p B. SEN, B.SC., M.B. ?>n the Department of Pharmacology, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta) S. D., a Hindu female aged 25 a) admitted under the senior aut Tropical "jto the Carmichael H?spita from Pleases on 12th April, 1933, sutteri 6 lntermittent fever of a hectic YP^ a sudden History of present illness. The admission and ftack of fever about 3 months before^aom^ lad been getting it ever since. ,i-rfi (jay) but later ever used to come every second ?r month she had came on daily. During the seC?ndifferent joints. ? uffered from alternating pains m pains subhere was no swelling of any join Qf the third ^ded spontaneously. During the earyj which however ^onth, she developed a rash on th b y. ghe wag ubsided, but the fever continued iuberculosis and ,reated outside the hospital for mala , practitioners, A coK infection' by different medical a but the fever could not be c?ntr<mej' possessed good , rne patient had previously alway ' , js dead. he^lth. She has had 3 children one of wbom
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