Typhus and Typhus-Like Fevers in Birjand, East Persia
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met with in Birjand during eighteen months of hospital experience amongst the garrison of troops stationed there. Six of these cases were admitted to hospital during May and the last few days of April, 1919. One case occurred in the middle of J une, and the other two during the first three days of July, 1919. Case 1.?The first admission, a young Indian clerk of the Works Department, was on April 24th : he complained of fever since the previous day, severe headache and backache. There were
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