Tropical Diseases
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of all physicians practising medicine in the East, because it is just the sort of work so many have felt the need of, viz., a handy manual of the diseases of warm climates brought up to date. The author has done well to cut himself adrift from the old traditions, from the red tape, statistics, and references to antiquated authorities and theories. He has relegated the telluric, miasmatic, electrical, meteorological, geological, and other favourite myths to the limbo of a forgotten past, and has substituted modern applied science with its microbes and amoebre. The late Editor of the British Medical Journal used to act, write, and speak as if he doubted whether any good and useful scientific work could emanate trom the Indian Medical
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Descriptive study of Herpes Zoster in patients referred to the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Clinic of Yazd between 1999-2004
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