Enteric Fever in India, with Some Observations on Its Probable Etiology in That Country

In venturing to bring the subject of enteric fever before this Society, I have to remark, at the outset, that my chief object in doing so is to offer, for your consideration, the results of my experience bearing upon the probable etiology of the disease, as it presented itself to me, in Europeans and natives, during my service in India. That it has long found a congenial home iu our Eastern empire, may be gleaned from the classical works of Clark, Annesley, and Twining. But the distinguished honour of first identifying it there, on the perfected lines laid down by Gerhard, Stewart, and Jenner, belongs exclusively to Surgeon-Major Scriven, of the Bengal Medical Service, now civil surgeon of Lahore. Scriven had learnt the error of the prevailing opinions, which excluded the affection entirely from India