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...

Aetiology and epidemiology Syphilis (also known as ‘The French Pox’) landed on England’s shores in about 1493. The term ‘French Pox’ was derived from the belief that the disease originally travelled from the New World and through France before arriving in England’s green and pleasant land. Controversially, it was believed to be Christopher Columbus’ own ship that brought such misery but this wa...