Is Asiatic Cholera Contagious?

Studies Upon Asiatic Cholera

Everyone who has written upon the subject of cholera has pointed out that however familiar we may be with respect to the characters of the pathogenic organism discovered by Koch in I883, with regard to its pathogenicity the single fact actually known is that the presence of this vibrio in the intestinal mucosa causes the disease. But why do the vibrios undergo modifications in the body? Why do ...

A Treatise on Asiatic Cholera

A Case of Asiatic Cholera, with Remarks

The following table has been most carefully prepared for me from cases under my care in the Native Hospital, by my Assistant, Mokoda Churn Sein, and illustrates, among other matters, the fact I have already referred to regarding the condition of the left side of the heart immediately after death from cholera ; confirming the observations of the late Dr. F awe us as to this cavity of the heart b...

On the Etiology of Asiatic Cholera

render it possible to regard certain of the old controversies between contagio-bacteriological and the older miasmatico-epidemiological doctrines as at length in a moribund condition. The result of my own investigations along with those first of Dr. Lustig (now Professor of Pathology in Cayliari) and later of Dr. Wood of Edinburgh, both in association with him aud subsequently in further indepe...

Asiatic Cholera: Mole Hills and Mountains

The disease cholera has persisted in Asia since time immemorial. Almost all the pandemic phases of cholera had its origin from the Indian subcontinent. Historically, waves of cholera have wiped many million lives in this region mainly due to the general insanitary conditions and poor management of the disease. All the three cholera causing vibrios namely classical, El Tor, and the O139 have eme...