Remarks on Ascariasis, Is There a Round Worm Fever?
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Anion"' the numerous clinical phenomena that arise from the presence of round worms, Colonol Hehir has omitted to mention one that is commonly met in the Deccan and probably elsewhere too. and that is pain, combined sometimes aiso with swelling, in one or both knee-joints. According to my experience, this usually occurs in children between the a^es of 4 and 12, and thousrh sometimes it is present with other symptoms, it just as often occurs as the main and only
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