A Case of Brucellosis (Abortus Fever)
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my charge, in the Sassoon Hospitals, on 5th January, 1946. On admission his temperature was 102, pulse 112, and respirations 24, and despite his long-continued pyrexia of nearly two months his physical condition struck me to be remarkably good, and his mental condition very alert. Physical examination revealed fairly good colour and nourishment, a clean and moist tongue veiy unlike the typhoid tongue, good appetite, and excellent memory as judged by the way he gave the history of his illness. Nothing pathological in the respiratory
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