THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE ADVERTISER.
264
THE DRAINAGE OF BOMBAY. To the Editor of the
''
Department Blue ject of cholera in
Indian Medical Gazetted
"
of tolerance appears to have been established, and the learned professor is proof against contamination. He also tells us that he experimented on some of his nurses and convalescent patients, and he draws some very interesting conclusions. As this is a death-blow to the pythos theory, it remains to be seen what Murchison's advocates, as well as opponents, in Germany have to say. The author, who translated his great work on the " Continued Fevers of Great Britain," is still alive, and takes an active part in scientific pursuits." If the pythogenic much more typhoid or read of.
theory be correct, then we ought (and cholera) than we actually see,
to
have
or
hear,
If any one wishes to study the subject and the evidence up the year 1872, I would refer him to a most valuable review, from the pen of our own immortal Parkes, in the Army Medical
to
Book for that year. lie dealt with the subthe report of the preceding year. John C. Lucas.
A hmedabad, 21 st filly,
Sir,?-About a couple of months ago Dr. Gray published a very interesting series of letters on the above subject in the Bombay Gazette, amongst other points, he maintained that "specific diseases," meaning Typhoid fever and cholera, are not engendered from sewage, per se, unless such sewage contains the specific germs" of those diseases. Exception Bainwas taken to this by another medical gentleman, Dr. bridge, who being, it seems, a believer in Murchison's pythogenic theory, wrote a rejoinder to the same paper. My attention is drawn to this, and I subjoin a transcript from what I wrote some few years ago in noticing certain valuable experiments by a well known German savant, which, it will be found, deals with the very question :? "Recent published experiments by Professor Von Rudolf Emmerich of Munich, tend to overthrow the pythogenic theory. He selected a few of the filthiest of ditches there, containing, amidst other abominations, fajces. As a beverage, he himself The effects, it drank this fluid without dilution with impunity. would seem, were only slight headache and some brisk diarrhoea, but he recovered from this in a few days, continuing in the meanwhile and for a short time since till the completion of his experiments, in fact, the drinking of that concoction. A kind
[September, 1883.
1883.
264
THE DRAINAGE OF BOMBAY. To the Editor of the
''
Department Blue ject of cholera in
Indian Medical Gazetted
"
of tolerance appears to have been established, and the learned professor is proof against contamination. He also tells us that he experimented on some of his nurses and convalescent patients, and he draws some very interesting conclusions. As this is a death-blow to the pythos theory, it remains to be seen what Murchison's advocates, as well as opponents, in Germany have to say. The author, who translated his great work on the " Continued Fevers of Great Britain," is still alive, and takes an active part in scientific pursuits." If the pythogenic much more typhoid or read of.
theory be correct, then we ought (and cholera) than we actually see,
to
have
or
hear,
If any one wishes to study the subject and the evidence up the year 1872, I would refer him to a most valuable review, from the pen of our own immortal Parkes, in the Army Medical
to
Book for that year. lie dealt with the subthe report of the preceding year. John C. Lucas.
A hmedabad, 21 st filly,
Sir,?-About a couple of months ago Dr. Gray published a very interesting series of letters on the above subject in the Bombay Gazette, amongst other points, he maintained that "specific diseases," meaning Typhoid fever and cholera, are not engendered from sewage, per se, unless such sewage contains the specific germs" of those diseases. Exception Bainwas taken to this by another medical gentleman, Dr. bridge, who being, it seems, a believer in Murchison's pythogenic theory, wrote a rejoinder to the same paper. My attention is drawn to this, and I subjoin a transcript from what I wrote some few years ago in noticing certain valuable experiments by a well known German savant, which, it will be found, deals with the very question :? "Recent published experiments by Professor Von Rudolf Emmerich of Munich, tend to overthrow the pythogenic theory. He selected a few of the filthiest of ditches there, containing, amidst other abominations, fajces. As a beverage, he himself The effects, it drank this fluid without dilution with impunity. would seem, were only slight headache and some brisk diarrhoea, but he recovered from this in a few days, continuing in the meanwhile and for a short time since till the completion of his experiments, in fact, the drinking of that concoction. A kind
[September, 1883.
1883.
