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THIS book is a complete treatise on cholera, containing all the essentials of the subject without being over-burdened with details which are of little practical importance. The first and second chapters deal with the history of cholera-epidemics and their lessons, and the epidemiology of the disease. In chapter iii. the etiology and prophylaxis of the disease are discussed, and it commences with a description of the specific organism of the disease, the comma bacillus of Koch, which, the author fully accepts as the cause of cholera. In this section we should have been glad to see a somewhat fuller discussion of the significance of the various cholera-like comma bacilli which have been isolated during the last few years. The hypothesis of Emmerich that cholera is a condition of nitrite poisoning is not accepted by the author. Prophylactic vaccination by means of cholera vaccine is regarded as being of considerable value, and the measures to be taken for the disinfection of infected wells are described.
Cholera and its Treatment.
By Prof. L. Rogers. pp. xiv + 236. (London: Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton, 1911.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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H., R. Cholera and its Treatment . Nature 89, 136–137 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089136b0
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