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rosive sublimate" solution ; that the comma bacilli in 

 rooms should be thoroughly dried and aired by throwing 

 open the windows for several days, and that instructions 

 should be issued as to the necessity for thoroughly personal, 

 culinary, and household cleanliness, as to the avoidance 

 of all water except that known to be pure, as to careful 

 boiling and cooking of drinking water and food, as to the 

 necessity of paying attention to the slightest gastric derange- 

 ment, and as to the avoidance of all excesses in both eating 

 and drinking. He pays attention then, first, to all relating 

 to the power of the individual to resist any attack of the 

 organisms. All place dispositions favouring the production 

 of conditions of gastro-intestinal disturbance are to be care- 

 fully neutralized, and in the same way all time dispositions, 

 such as autumn diarrhoea, determined by the unripe or 

 overripe fruits so abundant in the latter half of the year are 

 to be met and counteracted ; and second, to everything 

 relating to the rendering of all the environments unfit for 

 the development of the comma bacillus, so that the number 

 of centres from which infection may spread may be kept 

 down as much as possible. 



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