On Plague and Typhus Fever in India
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چکیده
buted by the natives to a punishment inflicted by Devi on the high priest at Kiddernath. The first notice of the appearance of the plague in India dates from the beginning of the present century, when there were cases of typhus, with occasional buboes. In 1816-17 plague raged in Kattywar, and continued to prevail till 1821, when it was seen by Dr. O'Shaughnessy, who is now in London, and has supplied me with useful information on the subject. There is no record of its having extended to the interior of India till 1836, when it appeared at Palee, in Rajpootana. There were the ordinary typhus bubonic symptoms,* and it was very fatal. It spread to the surrounding villages in the cold season, and ceased on the advance of the hot season of 1837, but re-appeared in the cold season of 1837-8, of which attack a minute account is given in the second volume of
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