Typhus Fever in Lower Bengal
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to care little or nothing for anything or anybody in the place ; the pain in the head was still severe, but he did not complain much about it; his bowels had not been moved during the past three days; he looked dull and stupid, and seemed utterly prostrated in body and mind ; his tongue was moist at the edges and tip, dry and brown in the centre. The lungs were healthy, a few sibilant rales only being heard over the apex of the right lung. The heart's sounds were weak. The liver and spleen of
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دوره 8 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016