l^EFEHENCES 



1905 



post-mortems, but splenic abscess is, in our experience, rare, and 

 may be of entamoebic origin. Infarcts and tuberculosis are, how- 

 ever, not so rare, and spleno-medullary leukaemia, as has been 

 mentioned above, is not very rare. Rupture of the enlarged malarial 

 spleen has already been mentioned, and may cause death within a 

 few minutes, or the patient may live for several hours. 



BONE-MARROW. 



The importance of the bone-marrow is often overlooked in the 

 tropics. It requires especial study in anaemias, kala-azar, and 

 malaria. 



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Castellani (191 2), Journal of Tropical Medicine a,nd Hygiene (Blood 

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Chalmers and Gibbon (191 8). Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 



(Heart-Block in a Sudanese). London. 

 Cfiamberlain and Vedder (191 i). Philippine Journal of Science, B, vi. 



405 and 421 (Arneth Count and X Bodies). Manila. 

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Strong, W. M. (191 6). Transactions of the Society of Tropical Medicine, 

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