Nothangel's Encyclopædia, Typhoid and Typhus Fevers
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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.
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 ...
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