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(HISTOPLASMOSIS OF DARLING)

ARTHUR A. HUMPHREY, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1940;65(5):902-918.

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A fatal disease so rare that in the third of a century following the original description only 4 cases of it were reported should merit only a passing or academic interest. However, when 5 other cases of the disease, which is a definite clinical entity, appear in southern Michigan in the course of a few months a new diagnostic problem is unquestionably thrust on physicians.

Darling,¹ in 1906, was the first to note in smears and sections taken at autopsy from the viscera of a Negro who had died at the Ancon Hospital in the Canal Zone a peculiar coccus-like organism which packed the endothelial cells. In the ten months after the first case he observed the same histologic picture in the cases of 2 other residents of Panama.² Clinically, the syndrome (splenomegaly, irregular pyrexia and leukopenia) resembled that of kala-azar, and the microscopic appearance was so similar . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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BATTLE CREEK, MICH.

From the Leila Y. Post Montgomery Hospital Laboratory.

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