A report of microscopical and physiological researches into the nature of the agent or agents producing cholera / by T.R. Lewis and D.D. Cunningham.

  • Lewis, T. R. (Timothy Richards), 1841-1886.
Date:
1872
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Credit: A report of microscopical and physiological researches into the nature of the agent or agents producing cholera / by T.R. Lewis and D.D. Cunningham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on tlic contrary, we should be g-lad to sec them practically tested by those who have the opportunity of doing so. The observations here recorded are submitted as facts; in no instance has an observation been included which had not been witnessed by both of us; any observation one may have made, which liad not been verified by the other, has been allowed to stand over. The interpretation which we have ventured to put on some of these observations may of course be erroneous, but the facts have, to the best of our ability, been accurately recorded, so that no one need be led astray by any faulty inferences of ours. We have, as far as possible, carefully avoided the in- troduction into the text of any descriptive terms involving the acceptance of a theory, although it would have been in some cases very convenient to have adopted some of the ingeniously coined words lately admitted into our me- dical vocabularies. To the authors of some of the terms which we have employed we are particularly indebted, and we wish specially to acknowledge the aid we have received from a study of the writings of Professors Beale, Burden Sanderson and Bastian. Our report has been divided into three parts; the first containing a description of the microscopical appearances of the blood in cholera; the second giving an account of a series of experiments on the action of solutions of organic matter from various sources and in various stages of de- composition on living animals; and the third, on the effect of section of certain nerves.