Parenteric Fever
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Sir,?On page 567 of the Indian Medical Gazette for November 1945, in comment No. (2) on the term Parenteric Fever you state that 'Dorland's medical dictionary does not even mention enteric fever or the enteric group of fevers'. This comment is incorrect, for on page 449, second column of the medical dictionary quoted under Fevers, enteric fever appears and is defined as typhoid fever. Immediately following this entiy appears ' Entericoid fever, any fever resembling typhoid in its clinical featuresThis probably would be a better term to employ than parenteric fever to avoid confusion with the three known paratyphoid types, viz, ' A' B ' and ' C
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