Iodine in the Treatment of Malaria, Kala-Azar and Small-Pox
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Readers of the Indian Mcdical Gazette may remember a paper which I published in 1914 on my experience in the treatment of cholera with iodine. Since then I have used iodine exclusively for cholera and have struck nothing better. On return from military duty to civil employ in January 1921, I was faced by an embarrassing problem, there was a general hue and cry from all quarters that the district was being depopulated by malaria, and every one was shouting for quinine and more quinine, and the difficult/ was that at that time there was a shortage of Gov-
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دوره 58 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016