DR. AYRE ON MALIGNANT CHOLERA.

Ayre v Aylesbury cervical spatulas.

A single blind crossover study compared the traditional Ayre spatula with the new Aylesbury spatula. The study group consisted of all women attending the department of genitourinary medicine during a 16 month period. The same incidence (3.6%) of dyskaryotic smears was found using the Ayre spatula (74/2077) as the Aylesbury spatula (72/2003). The incidence of smears with endocervical cells, howe...

The Official Refutation of Dr. Robert Koch's Theory of Cholera and Commas

Incidence of cholera in children under two years of age at the Dr. Soetomo Hospital, Surabaya.

Stool cultures from 510 patients, admitted to the Children's Ward of the Dr. Soetomo Hospital with gastroenteritis, were examined. Fifty-six cases were found to have para Cholera El Tor (10.98%) and 56 patients showed positive E. coli (10.98% ). The clinical features of para Cholera El Tor have been discussed, and compared with E. coli infections. We also reviewed the clinical observations of o...

A Congress on Cholera

follows. 1.?Is cholera developed in India spontaneously, and is it always produced in other countries by transmission from abroad ? 2?Is it capable of being transmitted by travellers from one country another ? 3.?Can it be transmitted by articles used by cholera Patients? 4.?Can it be transmitted by provisions? 5.?Can it transmitted by living animals, or the corpses of animals who ^ave died fro...

Notes on Cholera Treatment

The treatment of cholera, according to Lauder Bruuton, is firstly, to neutralize the injurious effects of poisons absorbed into the blood ; secondly, to remove the microbes and the poisons they have formed ; and thirdly, to stop the growth of any microbes which may still remain and to destroy tliem. The first process is effected by administering atropine in such a manner that it shall be quickl...