Increase of Enteric Fever
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remarks on the other side of the question. Any one who has had the opportunity of watching the course of an epidemic of enteric fever at home and of treating groups of cases from the same street, perhaps from the same household, must have been struck by the great variation among the cases as regards severity and mildness, and varying predominance of symptoms. There seems to bs no reason why mild, ill-defined cases of enteric fever should be recognized in England, and not recognized in India. The whole tendency of recent investigations on the specific fevers is to recognize more than formerly the existence of a fringe of blurred, ill-defined cases in all of them. The term " Simple Continued Fever" is a phrase which covers cases of fever symptomatic of slight local ailments, cases of ephemeral fever due to exposure to the sun, ill-defined cases of malarial fever, and mild cases of enteric fever. If it were expunged from the nomenclature, no harm would be done. To apply the term to cases where the temperature remains elevated for two or three weeks, is to misapply it. "Thomas Atkins" seems to have grasped this when he interprets the headinir " S. C. Fever " as "the "low continuous fever." Its use tends to laxity of diagnosis, and laxity of di-ignosis means that the dejecta of ill-defined cases of enteric fever are not systematically dealt with, and hence methods of prevention do not get fair play. Finally, Surgeon-Captain Rogers' reasoning that ''the very low mortality of simple continued fever seems to point to many of the cases returned as enteric not being cases of that disease " rests on
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Increase of Enteric Fever in India
SlK,?While quite agreeing with your leading article on the above subject in the August number of the Indian Medical Gazette, I wish to point out that the question of rhe exact diagnosis of enteric fever, from more especially that obscure headiris; " Simple Continued Fever," requires to be put on a more satisfactory footing before the correct amount of the increase of enteric fever in India can ...
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دوره 32 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016