Weil's Disease

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Abstract
ALTHOUGH Weil's disease is frequently mentioned in various classifications of the causes of jaundice, it has attracted little attention as a condition that can simulate an acute surgical condition of the abdomen. This is not at all surprising because the disease is generally considered to be quite rare in this country. In fact, state and city health departments have only recently become equipped to undertake the proper diagnostic laboratory procedures.We became interested in this problem during a review of cases of jaundice at Charity Hospital of Louisiana in New Orleans, in which it was found that operations had been . . .