Observations on the Nature of Cholera Poison
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POISON. By G. C. Roy, M.D., F.R.C.S., London, Corresponding Member of the Olasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society. The more wo trace an outbreak of cholera to its source, tlio clearer will stand the fact that, like specific poisons, it is a disease sui generis, that is capable of developing only its own kind. It pre-supposes for its existence the presence of a specific germ ; but how the ultimate particle was brought into activity is
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