MAN WITH BIRD’S DISEASE.
UNIQUE CASE IN ENGLAND
A. man who suffered from a bird’s disease has his ease, believed to be unique, described by Sir. St. Clair Thomson in an account of feu years’ experience in a sanatorium, published in England. The man. an accountant, aged 39, was taken to hospital under the. impression that he had tuberculosis of the larynx. Tie was very husky, and continued to lose his voice. Then the doctors noticed small black bodies about the size of millet seeds. Under the miscroscope they showed a fungus called aspergillns fumigafus. The disease is chiefly met with in birds but does not occur iu cows and horses. It lias been found in ducks, geese, fowls, pigeons, pheasants, bitslards. swans, flamingoes, jays, and golden polver. Sir St. Clair Thomas declares ilia I lie had never known a ease recognised and described in the larynx before.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2753, 3 July 1924, Page 1
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148MAN WITH BIRD’S DISEASE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2753, 3 July 1924, Page 1
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