Arthritis Following Small-Pox
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To the Editor, The Indian Medicai, Gazette. Sir,?With reference to Dr. Gopal Singh Chawal's letter in the correspondence columns of your issue for May 1927, with regard to arthritis as a complication of small-pox, 1 wish to say that arthritis as a complication cf small-pox is neither very rare nor unheard of. I have myself seen four such cases in a village of population 8,000 in Ramnad District of the Madras Presidency, and I have reason to believe that there were further similar cases in the village. I have also heard of other cases in the neighbouring districts. I have myself seen ankylosis of both elbows, of one elbow, of elbow and hip on the same side, and of both elbows and knees, as
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