An Unusual Complication in an Acute Case of Kala-Azar
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was regarded as being one of inoperable carcinoma of the cervix. Her condition was so serious that this diagnosis could not be verified and she died in a few days. She was a parous woman with no striking previous history. The chart showed a subnormal temperature throughout the period during which she was in hospital. No report regarding the blood picture of the patient is available. Fortunately a post-mortem examination was obtained which was done by Capt. Shanks, Professor of Pathology, and the findings were as follows :? The heart was atrophied, its walls flabby and the right ventricle dilated. The valves
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