Typhoid Fever in Natives
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as simple continued fever, remittent fever, typomalarial fever, &c. There can at any rate be no doubt that these terms are extensively used to denote many anomalous obscure febrile conditions, which offer difficulties in diagnosis, and that in most of such cases no attempt is made to solve the problem by means of any microscopical or bacteriological examination. Further it cannot but, be admitted by all that many cases of continued and remittent fever are seen in natives of India, the diagnosis of which is very difficult, ii not impossible, when the clinical symptoms are alone taken into consideration. It is surely not too much to hope that the routine practice of administering quinine to all cases of fever on the chance of their being malarial will soon become a thing of the past. This regime was formerly no doubt much in
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