Ixxxviii Proceedings of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
TABLE OF CHOLERA MorTALITY UNDER DIFFERENT METHODS 
oF TR 
Years. Cases. Deaths. Mortality. Recoveries. 
NorMat SALINE SUBCUTANEOUSLY AND PER RECTUM. 
1895 to 1905 =: 1,243 788 59°0% 41:0%, 
Normat SALINES INTRAVENOUSLY. 
1906 112 57 51:99, 49°19, 
NorMaL SALINE SUBCUTANEOUSLY AND PER RECTUM. 
1907 158 94 59°5 40°5 
HYPERTONIC SALINES INTRAVENOUSLY. 
1908 to 7-1909 294 96 32°6°%/, 67°49 
HYPERTONIC SALINES PLUS PERMANGANATES. 
8-1909 to 1914 858 299 25-9, 741%, 
Hypertonic Sanines, PERMANGANATES AND ALKALIES. 
1915 to 1917 638 122 19°31, 809% 
THE Furure or MepicaL RESEARCH IN INDIA. 
The great lesson to be derived from the researches on cholera 
which I have related is the importance of combined clinical 
and pathological investigations. So strongly do I hold the 
necessity of medical research workers being in the closest 
di 
three important research laboratories being placed on remote 
hilltops for the sake of the relatively insignificant mortality 
from hydrophobia to the grave detriment of work on all the 
more important tropical diseases. Now that the treatment of 
hydrophobia and other bacteriological methods can be carried 
out in the plains with the help of a refrigerator (and where 
opportunity which Rangoon took advantage of, and now that 
the terrible kala-azar is again ravaging the Sibsagar district, 
cases have to be imported into Shillong to enable the one re- 
search worker of the province, who is tied to the Pasteur 
Institute for want of an assistant qualified to carry out the 
routine hydrophobia treatment, to have some slight oppor- 
tunity of tackling the greatest problem of Assam and other 
arge areas of India. 
