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From the Department of Medicine, University of California Medical School, San Francisco. Work carried on in collaboration with Sir Thomas Lewis at the University College Hospital Medical School, London, while on sabbatical leave from the University of California.
Read before the General Medicine Section of the California Medical Association at the fifty-ninth annual session at Del Monte, April 28 to May 1, 1930.