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 ...

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 ...

THE literature of Cholera progresses with far greater strides than the scientific knowledge of Cholera. Here we have another large book devoted to the history of one disease, containing a digest of ...

A pandemic wave of the dreaded Asiatic cholera disease presents Utica – incorporated as a city only five months ago – with its first major crisis. The great pandemic began in Asia, spread to Europe ...

According to Oxford Learners Dictionary, Cholera is a disease contracted from infected water that causes severe diarrhea and vomiting, and death. Cholera, sometimes called Asiatic cholera or epidemic ...

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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 ...