Typhoid as a Common Continued Fever of Natives in Calcutta
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Although cases, which we now recognise to have been typhoid, were described by the older writers such as Annesley and Twining, yet it was not until the year 1854 that the writings of Scriven1 showed that true typhoid occurred in India among Europeans, while only two years later Ewart2 independently described the disease in natives in the Ajmere Jail. In 1805 Ewart's collection of pathological specimens, which form part of the present museum of the
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دوره 37 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016