Successful Operation for Cerebral Abscess
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a da}7, not necessarily after food, and he had dimness of vision in his right eye. The headache and vomiting though not so frequent as before remained persistent. About a fortnight ago he noticed tine tremors of his left thumb and index-finger, which gradually increased up to the time of admission. There was no history of syphilis or gonorrhoea. His complaints were, constant intense headache, worse in the morninnr, and purulent discharge from and pain in his right ear. The headache, which was daily increasing in intensity, started from the right temporal region and radiated upwards and backwards. There was intense pain and tenderness a little in front
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