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Tuberculosis Colliquativa. Presented by Dr. W. H. Connor.
T. V., a man aged 42, from the service of Dr. Cole and Dr. Driver at the Cleveland City Hospital, has lost 30 pounds (13.6 Kg.) in the last two years. For the past several years he has worked on a farm, and for a number of years before that he had been employed in a fertilizer plant. Two years ago a series of boils appeared over the arms, in the axillae and on the sides of the neck. The patient does not appear acutely ill, and except for persistent crepitant râles in the apex of the left lung, general physical examination revealed no abnormalities.
On the left forearm there are several granulomatous, nodular areas, with ulcers and draining sinuses. Similar lesions are present in the axillae. There are numerous scars of former lesions, including a number on the skin of the