The Boiling of Drinking Water
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چکیده
Sir,?Dr. A. Mitra, of Kashmir, wrote recommending the boiling of water in 1888, but Sir Joseph Fayrer anil Dr. (now Sir) Joseph Ewart wrote the same thing at least four years before, vi le "The book of Health," published by Cassell & Co., Ld., 3rd Edition, page 927, paragraph on the purification of drinking water. The article contributed by those eminent men is headed, " Health in India." The book is known to missionaries, and as these gentlemen are to be met in every province of India, it is, I think, not improbable that the kettle theory was known to a good few some years?at least ten?before the apostle of the kettle theory arrived in India.
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دوره 31 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016