Xeference to a mysterious complaint altaeking many Shanghai people during the early strumer was made by Dr. D. Engel, addressing the Society of German-speaking Physicians Shanghai recently.
Dr. Engel said that about the end of May or the beginning of June, a considerable portion of the Shanghai population complained of a violent cough. This was probably more pre-Valent in the western than in any other district. These people who had 2 tendency to the disease had a recurrence of it every year, as he himself had. Tt started with a. slight headache and an Increase in temper (ure, The sputum of patients suffering from this complaint was charac. teristic. resembling orange juice, and having an unmistakable iron taste. Patients did not usually feel enough to stay away from work, and their condition lasted only for a fow days, seldom more than four weeks,
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