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Previous Volume 342:115-122 January 13, 2000 Number 2 Next

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Preface

This millennial year is also a centennial year, and since the Case Records were conceived about a century ago, it is fitting to recount the circumstances of their origin on the occasion of the first Case Record of 2000. In its first issue of the 20th century, the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, later to become the New England Journal of Medicine, published "The Case Method of Teaching Systematic Medicine" (1900;142:31-6), an article submitted by Walter B. Cannon, a senior student at Harvard Medical School who would later become the George Higginson Professor of Physiology at the medical school. In . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Presentation of Case

Differential Diagnosis

Clinical Diagnosis

Dr. Philip W. Kantoff's Diagnosis

Pathological Discussion

Anatomical Diagnosis

References

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