Enteric Fever in Baghdad
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ous readers of the 1. M. Gazette. During the last two years I have seen 49 cases of enteric in the country. I say " seen," and not " treated, ' because the general idea is that none but Persian doctors know the genuine and national treatment of what is known here as Nocta (nocla in Arabic is "spot "), ?r. English equivalent enteric fever. The foreign practitioners here have a fairly wide practice, but it is seldom that
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