As the stream of refugees boiled and eddied out of Burma last week, the roads to India were littered with stiff bodies, lying on their backs, their hands clutching the air. These were the corpses of ...

As a tidal wave of cholera rolled across Asia, Africa and Europe, the Tribune reported on Dec. 14, 1853, that the dreaded disease had reached the East Coast. Its victims were immigrants who died ...

Based on: The Bacteria in Asiatic Cholera. By K. Klein, M.D., F.R.S., Lecturer on General Anatomy and Physiology in the Medical School of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Professor of Bacteriology at the ...

Based on: Asiatic Cholera: its Origin and Spread in Asia, Africa and Europe, Introduction into America through Canada; remote and proximate Causes, Symptoms and Pathology, and the various modes of ...

ALLOW me to relate an anecdote in point. I was with a regiment, to which at the time I belonged, in Mauritius, when that bright and beautiful isle was desolated by Asiatic cholera in the year 1854. It ...

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Dr. Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine, noted bacteriologist, whom Lord Lister termed a savior of mankind because of his researches into the causes of cholera, died here suddenly at the age of 70. Dr.

Little though it was known outside of Asia. China was rancid with cholera this summer, a pestilential menace to the rest of the globe. By last week, as cold weather crept over the country, the trouble ...

SO masterly and complete was the account which Koch gave in 1884 of the comma-bacillus, which he held to be the virus of cholera, that but little, if anything, has been added to our knowledge of its ...