lxxx Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
German culture so completely exposed by the great war that 
the recurrence of such a discreditable event seems scarcely 
possible in the future. This episode is, ee typical of the 
want of encouragement Indian Medi ervice pene. 
met with up to two or three deacon ago, which 
happily given place to a very different spirit, and the immense 
value of the research work done by the bacteriological depart- 
ment, to which I have not myself the honour of belonging, in 
the last few years is reflected in the bestowal of four decora- 
tions among the thirteen original members of that small but 
growing body of medical scientists. 
The establishment of the comma bacillus as the cause of 
cholera greatly strengthened our hands as far as regards pre- 
ventative measures against the disease, and its epidemic spread 
both beyond India and by pilgrimages within the country has 
much more efficiently controlled during the last two or 
three decades than formerly, although the sanitary arrange- 
ments for the prevention of the occurrence at and spread from 
Puri in Orissa, still leave much to be desired, as shown by the 
ve rious epidemic which occurred at the last especially 
largely attended Ete festival in 1912. Greig then showed 
h he recovered pilgrims leaving the hospital no less than 
36 cent were cholera carriers, and a number of outbreaks 
took place in the Central Provinces after their return, although 
unfortunately my suggestion to the Sanitary Commissioner 
with the Government of India to investigate that spree: * was 
in enormous numbers in the intestines, but only in , maar 
tively small numbers in the internal organs, it was at first 
hoped that the oral administration of intestinal qassioctants 
might cut short the disease. Unfortunately this hope was 
disappointed, and I ha in the course of my work that the 
dilute mineral acids, at one time given for that purpose, were 
seually harmful by ieee t the death-rate from suppres- 
sion of urine. An important sanitary advance was however 
made by Dr. Hankin’s use of Eomermonee to disinfect wells 
for ee cholera outbrea 
cholera. This brilliant pe just failed to be a great discovery 
because no means was then found of retaining the fluid in we 
circulation, so that the apparently miraculous immediate 
of reviving the patient as one from the dead was ae 
