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Does that fit the situation or the patient? That's a disease from

Posted By: a parasite infestation. NM on 2007-10-20
In Reply to: thanks, I got it, it was Chagas disease. Too early. Thanks again. nm - nm

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James Parkinson

English physician and paleontologist, born April 11, 1755, Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, London; died 1824, London.

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