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the one fifteen and the other twenty years previously. Both suffered 
severely at the time, and symptoms persisted, in the one for some weeks, 
and in the other for many months. The counts in each instance give a 
Table III. 
Cases with Ly 
mphocyte Count of over 50 per cent. 
Case No. 
Lymphocytes. 
Per cent. 
Interval. 
Symptoms. 
46 
66-5 
3 months 
Severe case, breathlessness, cough. 
26 
63-7 
3 
99 
,, ,, unconscious. 
4 
60-0 
5 
99 
,, ,, symptoms still. 
12 
58-2 
17 
99 
,, ,, unconscious. 
48 
57-5 
21 
99 
., ,, breathlessness. 
49 
56-6 
18 
99 
„ „ „ vomiting. 
8 
56-3 
12 
99 
,, ,, unconscious 4 hours. 
33 
56-2 
1 
99 
,, ,, vomiting. 
15 
55-4 
1 
V 
,, „ persistent symptoms. 
21 
54-8 
13 
99 
Slight, persistent gastric symptoms. 
37 
54-8 
12 
99 
Fairly severe, cough and wheezing still. 
39 
54-3 
6 weeks 
Severe case, unconscious. 
47 
52-4 
3 months 
„ ,, breathlessness, cough. 
45 
52-2 
22 
9 9 
Chronic bronchitis. 
9 
517 
11 
>> 
Fairly severe, dazed, cough still. 
Cases w 
ith Ly 
mphocyte Count of over 40 per cent. 
31 
49 4 
3 months 
Slight case. 
34 
49-0 
3 
9 9 
Vomited, stretcher case. 
25 
48-3 
3 
99 
Unconscious. 
13 
47-6 
12 
99 
Severe case, unconscious. 
44 
47-5 
2 
99 
Slight case, persistent symptoms. 
6 
45-2 
12 
99 
Fairly severe, eye symptoms still. 
41 
45-0 
6 
99 
,, ,, case, symptoms still. 
3 
44'6 
12 
99 
Marked case, eye symptoms still. 
35 
44'6 
12 
99 
Slight case, no present symptoms. 
28 
437 
3 
V 
27 
43-2 
12 
99 
Severe case, still symptoms. 
30 
41-9 
2 
99 
U nconscious. 
32 
41-7 
3 
99 
Vomited, headaches. 
1 
40-8 
3 
99 
Severe case. 
2 
40-0 
3 
99 
Marked symptoms. 
14 
40-0 
(0 
99 
Partly unconscious, symptoms still. 
slight relative increase of lymphocytes, but they are probably not outside 
the limits of error. 
On investigating the cases more closely, they may be classified into 
groups. In the first place, a group the counts of which approximate more 
or less closely to the normal, which are, in other words, either normal or 
