Epidemic of Jaundice, Waziristan Field Force
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that the patient's death was due to acute (yellow) atrophy of the liver. In the second Indian case? also in No. 14, Indian General Hospital, I suspected death to be due to the same cause, but the evidence here was not so strong as in the first patient. In neither of the above was a post-mortem obtainable. On the British soldier, who died in No. 18, British General Hospital, with much the same symptoms, a necropsy was performed, and the liver was found to be small, soft, and wrinkled and to weigh only 40 oz. Sections of the organ
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