Some notes on the poison contained in choleraic alvine discharges / by Vincent Richards.

  • Richards, Vincent.
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[1884]
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Credit: Some notes on the poison contained in choleraic alvine discharges / by Vincent Richards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7'-' /V U/uuM !» J%1 Jrij , . Af. /L / * fj/z/ltr SOME NOTES ON THE P TAIN ED IN CHOLERA DISCHAR By Vincent Richards, f> k-. fc. s. e. «— — w/a'Z^ It has been customary—though not uhRersally- so—to regard the choleraic a 1 v i n e, .di scha^ge$-■ • as possessing some peculiar poisonotJs^iopsif--' ties. But so far as I am aware, the fact has never been satisfactorily andconclusively esta- blished by actual experiments. Still less has any hint been given as to the true nature of the poisonous agent, further than it was sup- posed to be a “germ” of some description. Dr. Koch, the eminent German savant, has dis- covered in choleraic discharges and within the bodies of the affected, a peculiar bacillus which he believes to be the cholera-producing agent. He has not, however, succeeded in producing any appreciable results by the inoculation of isolated and cultivated bacilli. I have no knowledge of the details of Dr. Koch’s inves- tigations, but it is only natural to assume that had he met with any marked success in that direction, we should have heard of it. In the March number of the Indian Medical Gazette I published a short account of some experi- ments made with choleraic dejections in the case of dogs, . and it will be remembered that I failed to obtain positive results. By a lucky thought it struck me to try the experi- ment on pigs, which are in this country, at least,