Cancer of the Pleura
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I am permitted to report the above case through the kindness of Dr. Harris, Principal, Calcutta Medical College. The patient was in his ward while I was his house physician Patient named K. 0., a Maliomedan female, aged forty-eight, was admitted in tlie Medical College Hospital with a history of three months' illness Her chief complaint was pain over the left shoulder-blade which was so severe as to make
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