Twenty-One-Day-Fever in Children

To the Editor of " The Indian Medical Gazette. " Dear Sir, ?I am induced to write these few lines, simply because I have never come across this disease before either in children or in adults during my residence here for the last seven years. And now within the last three months only no less than eighteen children have been brought iThder my direct treatment for this disease which lam sure is an Infantile Enteric Fever prevailing in an epedimic form. The age of these patients varied from 13 months to 12 years ; none of them being above 12 years. The onset was of course insidious as our text-books describe, and so none of these cases was brought to me before / 6th day. The temperature then usually remained between ? 103? in the morning to 105? in the evening. In mild uncomplicated cases it got down to normal "exactly on 21st day and never rose again. While in majority of cases it was prolonged for five to eight days more either in a remittent or an intermittent form. Unfortunately it was impossible to prepare a complete temperature chart in these outdoor cases.