Bi-Lateral Cerebellar Abscess
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Casks of cerebellar abscess are so rare in the wards of the General Hospital that I need make no excuse for presenting this one to you. Several other interesting features in the progress and history of the disease make it particularly worthy of record. Alice Nona, a Singhalese girl of 8 years of age, was admitted into one of my wards on the 17th of January last, in a ^emi-conscious state, with a history of fever of 6 days' duration and of
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