Enteric Fever in Bengal
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By J. B. Hannah, M.D., and Thomas O'Farrell, M.A., M.D., Assistant Surgeons, 63rd Regiment. The subject of this paper was suggested by a study of the statistical returns of fevers in the Bengal Presidency from 1864 to 1868 inclusive, as given in the Army Medical Reports of those years. It will be seen by the accompanying table, that, in the year 1864, the number of cases of enteric fever throughout the
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دوره 6 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016