The Treatment of Enteric Fever on the Antiseptic Principle
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Sir.?In the September number of the Indian Medica Gazette there is a letter from Mr Clarke criticising in a friendly spirit a paper of mine on the treatment of enteric fever which appeared in the July number of your paper A* objections similar to those raised by Mr. Clarke may have occurred to other of your readers, I hope you will give me space to rep'y to them >a.) Mr. Clarke having taken the trouble to show by calculation how attenuated after administration each dose
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To the Editor, " Indian Medical Gazette." Sib,?Writing last month a surgeon?Mr. Tertius Clarke disputes the power of carbolic acid in Surg.-Lt.-Col. Quill's " antiseptic" prescription for enteric fever. He believes that l'5'5% in 36 cases in India" (I presume among young soldiers), "is better than the 4% of Dr. Barr, Liverpool," and yet he is " not inclined to accept Dr. Quill's conclusions as ...
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