The SOAP request:

POST /axis/Num_Patients.jws HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: nnn
SOAPAction: "" 

<?xml version="1.0"? encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <getNum_Patients>
      <disease>Jaundice</disease>
    </getNum_Patients>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

A SOAP response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/soap; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: nnn

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <getNum_PatientsResponse>
      <getNum_PatientsResult xsi:type="xsd:int">100</getNum_PatientsResult>
    </getNum_PatientsResponse>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>