Observations on Three Cases of Actinomycosis Hominis
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diseased area. References.?It can be affirmed definitely that the occurrence of actinomycosis in human subject is very rare in India, as I find no mention of a single case in the record of the last thirty years ; though an allied fungal infection of the foot called mycetoma has ibeen recorded by many eminent workers in India from a long time. The names of Vandyke Carter, Kanthack, Boyce and Surveyor, and Boccaro are so well known that
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