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timing membrane of the Bronchial tubes,
perhaps the most commm.
It
WVAJ
may
be right
blood, is a very
• to observe that inflammation of the tonsils and fauces, giving
rise to spitting of blood, common diender in Hongkong. breat care is requisite in distinguishing this from Are moptysis.
The Climate of Hongkong does not seem to me to forour the development of tubercles in the Lungs, yet those organs suffer rapid. degeneration when disease commences in them, either by consolidation of their tissues, on dilatation of the air-passages, and eventually- the formation of musical.
fente Rheumatism, established in
most cases ma syphilitie diathesis has been
during
the
past
year urgent in its nature,
not unfrequent in its recurrence, and orry
of physical rigour..
One case has
of
come
L'Iracunculus" on
under
my
1
destructive
•Guinea notice. I believe
it to have been imported from Bombay. When
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Isaw the case the parasite was projecting from
a k
ulcer in the Andle. The patient, an Indian, euffered both breally and constitutionally. He had subjected himself to a variety of charms
-
won WKS
and empirical ceremonies. The wound round a pices of smooth bamboo which was seenrech below the wound, a practice adopted"! by surgeons. My unfortunate partient had been taught that if, in the process of winding, the wou should breath, his disease, like chancery suit, when a suitor dies, would begin de mors; and this accident, to his great distress, happened to him. My treatment evidently containech too little of the imaginative, so he returned to a more speculative physician. I have
no reason to believe that the Guiner wom
Aul
is common, on even Kurson, in China.
Dr. Harland has presented with a tabılar statement of the cases admitted in 1850 into the Seaman's Hospital. They were in number 203, embracing a great
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