The King's Illness
An eleventh specialist, Dr. E. C. Dodds, professor of biochemistry in the University of London, was called to the king. He found deficiency in the blood calcium and therefore this substance has been administered. Another authoritative review of the king's peculiar illness has been published. Neither in inception nor in course has the illness conformed to pleuropneumonia; it was rather a streptococcic septicemia, which fortunately became localized at the base of the right lung, first imperfectly, later as an empyema ("fixation abscess") between the base of the lung and the diaphragm. In the second phase of the illness the clinical picture (dusky appearance, dry cracked tongue, delirium, subsultus, exhaustion) was that of a severe toxemia, resembling typhoid in the third or fourth week. Now the picture is the aftermath of a severe general infection. The empyema wound is now clean and steadily diminishing, the discharge is small,