Treatment of Typhoid Fever in Children

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  • E. H. Vere-Hodge
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severe haemorrhage and perforation of the intestine are exceptional; on the other hand cerebral symptoms, meningismus, delirium or coma are prominent features, as also is the tendency to i-espiratory complications. The writer saw in the course of one week no less than, five cases exhibiting some degree of meningismus. A happy feature in the young, however, is a singular capacity for recovery, even in the most desperate cases. As an i-llustration may be quoted the recovery of a girl of 12 years, who :.ad 84 days of fever including a relapse, who

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دوره 69  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016