importance of these factors is afforded by the reports of cases operated on by Tudor Edwards.1 History.?The symptoms in Mr. J. F., aged fortytwo years, asserted themselves with alarming vigour first on 15th May, 1935, by an hour's expectoration of foul pus and blood. He collapsed that evening, and the trouble kept him in bed for eight weeks. There had been mild pain over the lower left ribs for...

the paroxysm falls with greatest force upon the abdominal viscera, although it cannot be said that the contents of the thorax or cranium altogether escape. Storms of this kind, recurring during a succession of malarious seasons, tend to lower the muscular tone of all the vascular channels-?more especially the arterioles, and to weaken the organs of digestion and assimilation, ending sooner or l...