Enteric Fever in Rangoon, and Its Rational Treatment
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every three hours night and day, continued until temperature was normal for a week or more, and then given three times a day till convalescence fully established. To assist digestion, pepsine was given. pepsini porci, B. P., or Morison's gr. iii every two hours night and day with food. The majority of the cases did very well on this, so far as getting rid of the fever, &c., was concerned, but in all of them there seemed to be an intangible " something," which prevented their physical condition improving pari passu with the subsidence of the fever. I could only
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