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him that evening and said he might be developing serum sickness or a flue. Martin was leaving on vacation the next day and would ask Dr. Krebeer to keep in touch. On Wednesday morning, august 8, Lee felt weak when he went upstairs to shower. The weakness continued and when Dr. Krebser called, Lee explained his sensations.

Dr. Krebeer asked him to come to his office at 10:00 a.m. He detected a heart murmur, fast heart beat and low blood pressure. Krebeer asked me to take Lee immediately to Warren Memorial Hospital in Front Royal where he knows Dr. Huber, a heart specialist.

Dr. Huber put Lee in intensive care, administered digitalis and started blood cultures in cse he was suffering endocarditis. Huber could find no evidence of a blood infection. On Friday, Lee awoke with a dark red body rash, swelling and pains in his arms and neck joints. Huber recognized serum sickness, which he thought accounted also for Lee’s fever, heart murmur and low blood pressure. He began to administer prednizone and the symptoms abated. By Tuesday, August 14, Lee seemed well enough to come home where he continued on prednizone. As each day passed, he did not seem to gain strength.

On August 21, Tuesday, when he was scheduled to return to see Dr. Huber, Lee awoke early and, while getting a drink of milk in the kitchen,

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