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From: Eazy-T
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 00:00

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Starlight (kicker@apk.net) wrote:
: Charles S. Krin, DO FAAFP (ckrin@Iamerica.net*nospam) wrote:
: : 
: : rusty sputum is a classic sign, and not of TB or lung cancer- Sir
: : William Osler noted that it was one of the oldest consistent signs of
: : one of the problems that this patient has. (and he wrote at the turn
: : of the last century!)
: 
: has to be pulmonary edema from congestive heart failure.  the rusty sputum
: gives it away.  :)

Rusty sputum = pneumococcus (gram-positive lancet-shaped diplococci), not
CHF

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Subject: Re: case 2
Date: 1997/05/13
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