Recent Contributions to the Literature of Asiatic Cholera
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For reasons similar to those I have propounded regarding the matter of fungi in cholera evacuations, it seems to me to have been unnecessary for Dr. Lewis, in the report before me, to enter into an explanation of the appearances presented by animalcula), common to the water of certain drains and tanks in Calcutta, and cholera stools. Not only do I fail to understand the practical advantage to be derived from labors of this description in connection with researches into the nature of cholera, but, as in the present case, discussions of the kind are apt to do harm, by misleading people whose imaginations
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