Belladonna Poisoning
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Recently, a patient, aged 35 years, attended the out-patients' department one morning for swelling and pain of the right side of the scrotum of a couple of days' duration. There was no history of any venereal disease. There was a history, however, of a similar previous enlargement, two or three times years ago. The patient kept up a slight temperature. Bowels?constipated. Urine?normal. Diagnosis?acute orchitis?probably caused by slight local trauma, how and when the patient did not remember.
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