Notes on Some Cases of Relapsing Fever
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Railivay Hospital, Hubli, M. and S. M. Railway. Th? following cases of relapsing fever were admitted to this hospital during a local epidemic in August to October 1923. Some of them might have been mistaken for plague, had not the diagnosis been confirmed in each instance by the finding of spirochetes in blood films:? Case 1, aet. 27.?Admitted to hospital for continuous fever for 6 days, slight cough and pain in the back and all over the body. Temperature on admission 102.8?; conjunctivas tinged yellow; had a "staggering" gait. Blood examinations revealed many spirochsetes. Temperature carne down by crisis 12 hours after. An intra-
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