Clinical Observations on Weil's Disease in India
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To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?Our attention has been drawn to a sentence W our article in the last number of your journal (p. 59o, 3rd para). This sentence appears to be susceptible to misinterpretation. It was not our intention to sugg^st that our colleagues at the Medical College in particular had missed cases, because we were aware that at leas* two other cases had been diagnosed in the Medical College, and probably in others the diagnosis of "Weils disease had been considered, but we wished simP'^ to draw attention to the probability that cases are being missed by those unfamiliar with the disease; we ourselves probably missed some typical cases before we became more familiar with the symptomatology, aD
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