Typhus Fevers in India
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The History, Causation, and Prevention of the Enteric Fever of India
cases of enteric fever. Dr John Clark described the fevers which occurred in the Honourable East India Company's ships from 1770-85.2 He describes an epidemic on the voyage from India, and states that "in the beginning of this fever, inflammatory symptoms chiefly prevailed, frequently with bilious vomiting, but in its progress it changed into a typhus, pr was succeeded by a flux." It is not too...
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Sir,?Tn reply to Surgeon-Major Fairland's query as to typhoid ulcers being pathogomonic of enteric fever, it is only necessary to state that Sir W. Jenner and other authors who agree with him as to the non-identity of Enteric and Typhus fevers, consider the intestinal lesion characterstic of the disease, although sometimes the fever may be so severe as to cause death before the ulcerative stage...
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دوره 79 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1944