Remarks on Varix Lymphaticus or Nævoid Elephantiasis
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Officiating Professor of Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy and Clinical Surgery, Calcutta Medical College, and Second Surgeon, Medical College Hospital. The following case, which recently came under my observation; illustrates a peculiar form of scrotal disease of not infrequent occurrence in India, to which Dr. T. Lewis has added a new interest by the discovery of the filaria sanguinis hominis in the exudation which constitutes the main characteristic of the
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