On the Occurrence of Serous Pleurisy Due to Pneumococci and Tubercle Bacilli
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was a left-sided pleuritic effusion, so extensive as to displace the heart to the right side, and to make the spleen palpable below the left costal margin. The blood contained 9,860 white cells per c.m., and a differential count showed 73 per cent, polymorphonuclears, 15 per cent, small lymphocytes,. 10 per cent, large lymphocytes, 1 per cent, eosinophils, and 1 per cent, basophils. The temperature was found to persist,, and the effusion to show no signs of lessening, so on May 4th he was tapped, and 24 oz. of a clear yellow serous fluid withdrawn from the left side of the chest. This pleuritic fluid contained pneumococcus and staphylo-
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