Asiatic Cholera in 



getting into the intestinal canal of human 

 beings multiplies with such rapidity that 

 within a few days or hours the body may be 

 overwhelmed with the poisonous material 

 which it eliminates as it grows. We know 

 that in certain stages of the disease the living 

 germs are discharged from the body in vast 

 numbers, and that if moisture be present 

 they may remain alive outside of the body 

 for long periods and may even multiply. 

 They can thus remain alive for some time in 

 water and on the moist surfaces of vegetables 

 and fruits and clothing. 



There is no good reason for believing that 

 any other germ or organism than this par- 

 ticular curved bacillus ever induces Asiatic 

 cholera, or that the disease is ever caused by 

 anything else. The only known way in which 

 the infective agent is conveyed from man to 

 man is by the taking into the intestinal canal, 

 either by water or food or in some other way, 

 some of the cholera bacilli which have come 

 directly or indirectly from some human victim 

 of the disease. 



The germs may remain alive for a long time 



