Indian Cholera

D D Cunningham and the aetiology of cholera in British India, 1869-1897.

Cholera in the nineteenth century has proved an enduring topic for historians. In 1961 Asa Briggs called for analysis of cholera as an under-utilized yet potentially powerful tool for the emerging discipline of social history.2 Researchers in the field responded with a plethora of works on this most brutal of epidemic diseases. Despite methodological and interpretative differences, the literatu...

"Primitive Belief" as to Propagation of Cholera

sioner's Report on the epidemic cholera of 187'2, and he will discern that some of our authorities still hold by this " primitive belief" regarding cholera. The Pall Mall observes that " it is satisfactory to find that the obstinacy of Indian medical men as to their theory of the propagation of cholera, and their primitive belief in its being a mere chance product of climate, not to be warded o...

Studies on the Potency of Prophylactic Vaccines. 1. Cholera Vaccine

f B. M. PAUL 'o,n the Cholera Bacteriological Enquiry, Indian esca,ch Fund Association, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta) Cholera vaccine is extensively used foi Prophylaxis, particularly during epidemics of cholera and in endemic areas of the disease. 1 here are three main sources of cholera vaccine, vaccines prepared by certain recognized oratories, the vaccines prepared by local commerc...

An Easy Method of Producing Permanent Rough Variation in Cholera Vibrios *The paper was read before the Indian Science Congress Association, held at Nagpur in January 1945.

Results of Inoculation of Cholera Vaccine in Nabadwip (Bengal)

Antihistamimics in Cholera (A Reply)