Inoculation as a Prophylactic of Cholera
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or modes, whose results are the symptoms we call cholera. Thirty years ago I published in India, and very often since, that at certain recurrent periods almost any change might lead to the evolution of cholera, I viewed cholera as having evolved in the natives of India, owing to the inherent weakness of their vitality, or, in chemical language, that the molecular bonds of the protop asm of the natives were weak, and thus "poisons " or inharmonious chemical bodies tended to form in the system. As cholera in the native evolved so readily from so oreat
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