A Fatal Case of Infection with Ascaris Lumbricoides
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seen by me some ten years ago, when a medical student of the Berry-White Medical School, Dibrugarh. The patient, an adult Hindu male, was admitted to hospital with all the clinical signs and symptoms of acute intestinal obstruction, but the presence of roundworms was not for a moment suspected. He was operated upon by Dr. H. K. Das, l.m.s., then Teacher of Surgery at the School, and now Civil Surgeon of Nowgong, Assam. At operation about 500 round-
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