Typhoid Fever Presenting Some Unusual Features
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K. P. A., a Hindu male, aged 25, arrived in a military station for training on 3rd February, 1937, from l)lS village five miles away. On the same day he ^'aS inoculated with 1 c.cm. of T.A.B. vaccine. After the inoculation he received 48 hours' ' excused duty' and had no complaints. On the 16th, he reported sick complaining of fev_er> cough and cold. He said he had been having fever f01 three days with abdominal pain at night. On examine' tion his temperature was 99?F., pulse 86, respiration His tongue was clean and no abnormal physical sigD
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