Presentation of CaseA forty-two-year-old handy man was admitted to the hospital because of anorexia and diarrhea.The patient had been well until eleven years before entry, when he noted progressive enlargement of the lymph nodes of the neck. He was admitted to another hospital where a biopsy of one of the lymph nodes was performed and a subsequent diagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma rendered. He received several courses of x-ray therapy for recurrent masses in the neck with good results and was well until two years before the present admission when he was admitted to this hospital because of anorexia, . . .
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Cabot et al. (1949) studied this question.