Causation of Beriberi
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finement in which she lives; menstruates regularly; liver and spleen of normal size ; no tenderness on pressure over either organ. The disease began about the middle of October, when she suffered from slight diarrhoea and profuse discharge of urine. I afterwards noticed that her feet and legs began to swell; the swelling came on gradually, and was hardly noticed at first: as it progressed she s...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
سال: 1902
ISSN: 0002-9629
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-190207000-00033