CAUSATION OF ENTERIC FEVER.

The History, Causation and Prevention of Enteric Fever in India

and in which he deals with the subject from the point of view that typhoid is an old disease in India. Ele gives good reasons for this contention, and his historical summary is instructive and interesting, in the course of which he mentions that "it was reserved for Assistant-Surgeon Scriven, of the Bengal Service, to create a very distinct epoch in the Indian history of disease, by the publica...

The History, Causation, and Prevention of the Enteric Fever of India

cases of enteric fever. Dr John Clark described the fevers which occurred in the Honourable East India Company's ships from 1770-85.2 He describes an epidemic on the voyage from India, and states that "in the beginning of this fever, inflammatory symptoms chiefly prevailed, frequently with bilious vomiting, but in its progress it changed into a typhus, pr was succeeded by a flux." It is not too...

Enteric Fever

ENTERIC FEVER. By Thomas O'Farrell, M.A., M.D., Surgeon, A. 31. D. That enteric fever is prevalent in India, especially among those who have recently changed their residence from England to this country, is a well-recognized fact, yet here, as well as at home, a variety of opinions are held as to the causation and propagation of the disease. <Ve have the great contagionist, "William Badd, asser...

Enteric Fever

The Causation of Enteric Fever with Remarks on Its Prevention and Treatment

Having had the good fortune to obtain a copy of the recently published reports of the Surgeon-General on the subject of Enteric Fever, ifc is not without a feeling of presumption on ray part that I again revert to the above disease. For comprising, as these reports do> information of the utmost value, gained from numerous statistics and followed up by remarks on the diagnosis and treatment, sho...