World Health Organization : Organisation Mondiale de la Sante ; Serie de Monographies, Volume Number 43: World Health Organization ; Cholera

By R. Pollitzer, M. D.

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Title:	World Health Organization : Organisation Mondiale de la Sante ; Serie de Monographies, Volume Number 43: World Health Organization ; Cholera
Author:	R. Pollitzer, M. D.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


Citation APA MLA Chicago M. D, R. P. (n.d.). World Health Organization : Organisation Mondiale de la Sante ; Serie de Monographies, Volume Number 43. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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It would be no exaggeration to sag that it was through cholera, and the fear to which its pandemic sweeps gave rise, that international solidarity in matters of health was born. Cholera was the principal disease covered by the early international sanitary con\-entions and came at the head of the list of quarantinable diseases. Koch's discovery of the cholera vibrio, and thus the confirmation of the contagion theory, in 1884 was a scientific keystone of the greatest importance and lay at the base of much progress in the drafting of future sanitary conventions. While in Europe cholera has not been seen since the early twentieth century, its endemic foci in Asia remain, occasionally erupting into epidemics. The disease continues to claim an annual toll of tens of thousands on that continent and to menace other parts of the world, as witnessed by the 1947 epidemic in Egypt whence the disease had disappeared since 1919. Much has been written on cholera in

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Page Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Chapter 1 . History of the disease . . . . . . . . . 11 Chapter 2 . World incidence. written in collaboration with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S . Swaroop 51 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 3 . Bacteriology 97 Chapter 4 . Problems in immunology. written in collabor- . . . . . . . . . ation with W . Burrows 202 . . . . . . . Chapter 5 . Bacteriophage investigations 373 Chapter 6 . General pathology and morbid anatomy . 397 . . . . . . Chapter 7 . Practical laboratory diagnosis 523 . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 8 . Clinical pathology 607 Chapter 9 . Symptomatology. diagnosis. prognosis and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . treatment 684 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 10.Epidemiology 820 . . . . . . . . . Chapter 11 . Prevention and control 893 Annex . Examination of cholera-suspect stool specimens. written in collaboration with W . Burrows . . . . . 991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Index 1001