Case 6-1965

Abstract
Presentation of CaseA twenty-two-year-old unemployed dancer and bartender was admitted to the hospital because of fever.He had been well until five weeks previously, when he jumped or fell from a bridge, landing on a lower level and sustaining comminuted fractures of the os calcis bilaterally. Closed reduction was performed under general anesthesia, and he was discharged to a convalescent home on the twelfth hospital day. The medications prescribed consisted of chloral hydrate, dextropropoxyphene hydrochloride (Darvon) and an analgesic mixture containing aspirin, phenacetin and caffeine. One week before admission a rash developed on the arms and trunk, accompanied by . . .

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