The History, Causation, and Prevention of the Enteric Fever of India
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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 much to suppose that the group of cases
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The History, Causation and Prevention of Enteric Fever in India
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