Difficulties in the Early Diagnosis of the Typhoid Group of Fevers *Being a paper read at a meeting of the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal on the 14th of March, 1927.
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Richard Bright in 1827 described it as typhis fever with bowel complications. The typhus group of fevers was houn e y uncertain landmarks until Jenner in IBM nrs established the essential pathological difference, between typhus and typhoid fever, on the basis ?f the lesions in the small intestine. The clinical manifestations of the r0P ' fevers, with the many and varied comp ica 1 prevalent in the tropics, bewildered our pre ece sors in Bengal, no matter how careful and accurate were their clinical observations; as my ex periences here for so many years in the ropic bring out. Crombie divided all fevers seen in Calcutta in o 1. Those of short duration?simple continued fever of short duration. . 2. Those of long duration?simple continued fever of long duration. emTar Then attention was called to another referred to by Manson and considered to M a separate entity?called in those days ( 1 Dum", " Burdwan"), "Non-malarial renlltt^ fevers " of the plains, with a duration or Weeks; characterized by bilious dial rhcea, iea( symptoms, and congestion of the lungs. This resembles many cases we now see a.^ unmistakable cases of typhoid fever,, sone which end fatally. The laboratory having given positive findings for typhoid in the earlier s ag ,
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