THE CHOLERA FUNGUS.

Cholera in the Port

Our author states further?" The only certain way of stopping Cholera without sending the crew on shore is to go to sea and finally adds,?t! On the whole it may be said that sailors get Cholera by visiting Calcutta, and lose it by going to sea." So do miners encounter fire-damp by going into an ill-ventilated coal pit, and shake it off if they are fortunate enough to return into the open air; bu...

Infected Concha Bullosa with Fungus

Introduction: Concha bullosa is the most common variation of the middle turbinate of the paranasal sinuses. When it causes nasal obstruction, osteomeatal unit dysfunction, or rarely chronic infection, surgery is required.   Case Report: We present a fungal infection of concha bullosa, which is a rare indication for surgery of the concha bullosa. A 59-year-old female patient presented with hemif...

The Epidemiology of Cholera

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?In the research section of the last annual report of the All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, a method of forecasting cholera epidemics is referred to which depends on working out the regression equations connecting the mortality in certain weeks of the year with the total mortality of the preceding year. The method is stated to be acc...

Cholera in the 1990s.

Two strains of Vibrio cholerae are currently significant in cholera: a remnant from the sixth pandemic (1899-1923) still present in South Asia and the seventh pandemic strain which emerged in 1961. The 1990s were marked by spread of the seventh pandemic to South America in 1991 and appearance of an O139 form of the seventh pandemic strain in 1992 (or possibly 1991), which in 1993 predominated i...

The Treatment of Cholera