Kala-Azar: Diagnosis and Treatment
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their spleens by " spleen puncture." Certainly, most of the patients whom we see are sent to us . from the Medical College Hospital Out-patient Dispensary and by local practitioners because they have symptoms which suggest kala-azar. On the other hand, of the patients who are eventually diagnosed kala-azar in the Medical College Hospital, more than half have been admitted not as kala-azar patients but as patients suffering from one of the common complications of this disease as, for instance, broncho-pneumonia or
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