A Report of Two Cases of Kala-Azar with Delirium as a Prominent Feature
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or extreme rarity of mental symptoms like delirium, mental drowsiness, etc., in kala-azar. This is one of the few negative points of diagnostic significance in clinical medicine. Even in ' enteric type ' of the disease, though the case may simulate one of enteric fever very closely, the toxic drowsiness of the enteric patient is conspicuous by its absence. Even in what Manson-Bahr terms the 1 acute toxic ' type with very high mortality mental symptoms
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