Feb., 1887.] NEW
VITAL STATISTICS AND SANITARY NOTES. INVESTIGATIONS ON CHOLERA.
Tizzoni and Cantani send to the Centralbaltt fur Medizinischen fVissenschaften (October, 1886) the valuable results of their observations and researches made during the recent epidemic of cholera at Bologna. The following theses represent their principal conclusions : The nature of the disease was estab1. lished by bacterioscopic and microscopic examinations. The comma-bacilli obtained in a pure 2. culture from the excrements and the intestinal contents of cholera patients presented all biological and morphological characteristics described by Koch and Van Ermenghem. 3. In twenty-four cases of cholera which were investigated, the comma-bacilli could be demonstrated in each instance, either by microscopic researches or (in case the microbes were but few in number) by bacteriological
procedures.
The bacillus was seen not only in the less acute form of cholera (twenty cases), but also in the prodromal diarrhoea (one case) and in choleric typhoid fever (three cases). In the latter affection the bacillus was obtained as late as six, seven, and fifteen days after the beginning of the infection. 5. These observations testify to the signal value of bacteriological and microscopic researches for the diagnosis and prognosis of Asiatic cholera.? The Therapeutic Gazette. 4.
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VITAL STATISTICS AND SANITARY NOTES. INVESTIGATIONS ON CHOLERA.
Tizzoni and Cantani send to the Centralbaltt fur Medizinischen fVissenschaften (October, 1886) the valuable results of their observations and researches made during the recent epidemic of cholera at Bologna. The following theses represent their principal conclusions : The nature of the disease was estab1. lished by bacterioscopic and microscopic examinations. The comma-bacilli obtained in a pure 2. culture from the excrements and the intestinal contents of cholera patients presented all biological and morphological characteristics described by Koch and Van Ermenghem. 3. In twenty-four cases of cholera which were investigated, the comma-bacilli could be demonstrated in each instance, either by microscopic researches or (in case the microbes were but few in number) by bacteriological
procedures.
The bacillus was seen not only in the less acute form of cholera (twenty cases), but also in the prodromal diarrhoea (one case) and in choleric typhoid fever (three cases). In the latter affection the bacillus was obtained as late as six, seven, and fifteen days after the beginning of the infection. 5. These observations testify to the signal value of bacteriological and microscopic researches for the diagnosis and prognosis of Asiatic cholera.? The Therapeutic Gazette. 4.
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