Kala-Azar in India and the Sandfly
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Sir,?I have just read in the August number of the Indian Medical Gazette (1950) Brook's condensation of the ' Case against the sandfly' and its role in the transmission of kala-azar and his further criticisms of the accepted theory. These criticisms are too valid and scathing to be ignored and it is wellnigh criminal to attempt to do so. I wrote to your journal some time ago in this same trend but I. observe that nothing has been done 1o banish, once and for all, from textbooks what the eminent medical scientist Dobell labels little more than
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