On Certain Points in Connection with Malarial Fevers in India
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will suggest itself to you that such a comprehensive subject as Indian fevers could be touched on only in the slightest and most superficial manner, in the brief space accorded me. Instead, therefore, of endeavouring to wander discursively through the wide domain of Indian fevers generally, I shall attempt to limit my remarks to some few, select, points in the history of what is par excellence understood as " fever" in India, viz., malarial, or, as it is sometimes termed, climatic fever. I shall further endeavour to emphasise some of the difficulties in the way of diagnosis of certain other diseases in India?difficulties introduced by the peculiar impress of periodicity which the malarial poison confers on other affec-
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