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OTHER BACTERIA IN CHOLERA. 



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comma-bacilli were very scarce, the small bacilli were not 

 scarcer. In most cases they were met in larger or smaller 

 groups and as isolated examples. 



[As one amongst several cases interesting as regards the 

 occurrence both of comma-bacilli and the small straight 

 bacilli is the following : E., aged 25, had been purging 

 and vomiting since twelve o'clock in the night of i5th 

 November ; was admitted into the Medical College Hospital, 



FIG. 40. FROM A PREPARATION OF FRESH MUCUS-FLAKES FROM THE ILEUM OF 

 ANOTHER TYPICAL RAPIDLY FATAL CASE OF CHOLERA. 

 Lymph corpuscles containing the minute straight bacilli. 

 Magnifying-power about 700. 



Calcutta, on the i6th November, at 10 a.m., with symptoms 

 typical of the acute stage of cholera. Died at 1.45 p.m., i.e. a 

 little over twenty-five hours after the first attack. Post-mortem 

 examination at 2.20 p m. Ileum contains clear watery fluid, 

 with glassy mucus-flakes, and numerous epithelial flakes. 

 In the mucous membrane a few minute hsemorrhagic spots, 

 not bigger than the point of a pin ; Payer's glands not visible. 



