1919.] The Sixth Indian Science Congress. Ixxix 
EARLY RESEARCHES ON CHOLERA. 
I must first briefly refer to some points in the history of 
very hard, and it was not until Ernest Hart, at the first Indian 
Medical Congress in Calcutta in 1894, poured ridicule upon it, 
organism is indeed present in such enormous numbers in the 
rice-water stools of severe cholera cases that it could scarcely 
be overlooked by a well-trained bacteriologist, who, however, 
that th 
stools of cholera cases, and had clearly stated that the causative 
organism would found in the evacuations. few years 
later he went on leave and studied the then young science of 
bacteriology at his own expense, with a view to tackling the 
same Government, however, within a year gave to a German 
bacteriologist, who had in the meantime discovered the comma 
bacillus in Egypt, every possible facility to investigate cholera 
in India. I have in my possession Dr. Macnamara’s own 
account of this sad episode, which reflects so little credit on 
Indian administration. I am glad to say he has lived to see 
