Report on the nature and import of certain microscopic bodies found in the intestinal discharges of cholera. Presented to the Cholera Committee of the Royal College of Physicians ... by their sub-committee, on the 17th October, 1849 / [By W. Baly and W.W. Gull].

  • Royal College of Physicians of London. Cholera Committee.
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[1849]
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Credit: Report on the nature and import of certain microscopic bodies found in the intestinal discharges of cholera. Presented to the Cholera Committee of the Royal College of Physicians ... by their sub-committee, on the 17th October, 1849 / [By W. Baly and W.W. Gull]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have been confounded many objects of various, and totally distinct, natures. 3. A large number of these have been traced to substances taken as food or medicine. 4. The origin of others is still doubtful, but these are clearly not fungi. 5. All the more remarkable forms are to be detected in the intestinal evacuations of persons labouring under diseases totally different in their nature from Cholera. Lastly, we draw from these premises the general conclusion, that the bodies found and described by Messrs. Brittan and Swayne are not the cause of Cholera, and have no exclusive connexion with that disease ;—in other words, that the whole theory of the disease which has recently been propounded, is erroneous as far as it is based on the existence of the bodies in question. (Signed) William Baly, M.D. } Cholera William W. Gull, M.i). \ Sub- Committee.