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. 1879 Apr 1;14(4):91–95.
Report on the Epidemic of Dengue of 1872, as It Appeared in Fort William, Calcutta
Albert M Verchere
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Surgeon-Major Albert M Verchere
113th Regt. N. I, and late Garrison Staff-Surgeon, Fort-William
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113th Regt. N. I, and late Garrison Staff-Surgeon, Fort-William
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This elaborate and interesting report was submitted in compliance with circular instructions issued by the Indian Medical Department. These instructions elicited a large number of valuable reports from medical officers stationed throughout the Bengal Presidency which have not as yet been published nor utilized. They have been kindly placed at our disposal by the Surgeon General, and it is our intention to print in extenso some of the best of them illustrating the phenomena of the disease in different parts of the presidency. We shall follow these up by a concise summary description of the whole epidemic in Bengal, whose history is peculiarly interesting inasmuch as it affected a virgin soil and spread from a definite point. Surgeon Major Verchere's observations represent the behaviour of the disease in a crowded community and a warm humid climate, while the epidemic was yet young aud presumably in the height of its vigour. It will be read with profit as a companion to Surgeon-Major T. E. Charles's excellent lectures which appeared in this journal while the disease was amongst us, and derives a melancholy interest from the circumstance that its author succumbed last summer to the effects of sickness contracted on service in Malta and Cyprus, Ed. I.M.G.
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