Typhus Fever in Hoti Mardan and in Baluchistan *Read at the Indian Medical Congress, December 1894.
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Typhus fever is no new disease in India. Anybody who has had occasion to refer to Dr. Bryden's Statistical Report, published in 1878, will, I think, feel convinced that some, at any rate, of the outbreaks described by him were instances of true typhus. In discussing the mortality from this disease which decimated many of the jails of India between 1859 and 1867, Dr. Bryden says : " It is in the interest of those to come after us that the teaching of these nine years should be recorded. * * * I have given so prominent a place to this epidemic contagious fever of 1859 to 1867, * * because I know that the very same objections and doubts will certainly be brought up again and lead to not less disastrous consequences than have followed the assertion of erroneous individual
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Typhus Fever in Hoti Mardan and in Baluchistan
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