On the Necessity of Teaching the Frequency of Rheumatic Infection in Young Indians
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infection occurs only rarely. It is mainly by the experience and teaching of the professors and lecturers of the medical colleges of India that this obscurity is now being dispelled. As long ago as 1886, Norman Chevers in his classical Commentary on the Diseases of India remarked on the rarity of acute rheumatism in Bengal. ' The experience of a working life time', he writes, ' has taught me that acute rheumatism is rare in Lower Bengal \ He quotes Malcolmsen as having made a simi|**r observation as regards Madras in 1835, '
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