A Case of Cerebral Malaria, Presenting Unusual Features

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  • A. Bayley-De Castro
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opinion that the publication of such cases helps to keep fresh in the minds of medical practitioners the vagaries of malaria. In this settlement of the Andamans we every now and then meet with rare, irregular, and interesting forms of malaria, and when you get such a case without the presence of other infections, it becomes doubly interesting, as I hope the notes below will show. Case.?Prisoner No. 45798, a young man of average height and fair build, but slightly under weight, and of poor muscular development, reported sick on the morning of the 12th April 1926, stating that he had had fever for 3 days with slight rigors, and vomiting, followed by profuse diaphoresis. His previous admissions to hospital were for diarrhoea once, for bacillary dysentery once, for benign tertian malaria once.

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دوره 61  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017