"Rogers" Seven-Day-Fever
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Sik,?It was with great interest that I read in J01'1 issue Colonel Wimberley's article on the out iea Dengue-like fever amongst the 15tli Sikhs, It struck me that if there is a differential diagnosis a < between ' Breakbone Dengue ' and the Seven-Day I e\ei c cribed by Major Leonard Rogers?then these interesting cases must fall under the latter heading?and this, in spi e the fact that the fever of 50 per cent, of Colonel 1m _>ei ley s cases lasted only three or four days, and also of the tact that Nowshera is an inland station.
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Aids to Tropical Medicine
Three-day fever is given chapter, its synonyms being the Chitral Fever of MacCarrison, Sandfly or Phlebotomus Fever; a good summary f;! of the Seven-day Fever of Rogers is given, but no hint is given as to its possible relationship with dengue. The account of dengue is good. Captain Harnett's work on Eosinophilia is referred to, but the description given is necessarily brief and too condensed f...
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