The following Memorandum has been drawn, up by a Committee convened by the Secretary of State for India, for the purpose of taking into consideration a Report by Drs. E. Klein and Heneage Gibbes, entitled “An Inquiry into the Etiology of Asiatic Cholera.” The members of this Committee were—Dr. William Aitken, F.R.S., Professor of Pathology, Army Medical School; Dr. J. Burdon-Sanderson, LL.D., F.R.S., Waynflete Professor of Physiology, Oxford; Dr. Norman Chevers, C.I.E., Deputy-Surgeon General, late Principal and Professor of Medicine, Medical College, Calcutta; Dr. F. de Chaumont, F.R.S., Professor of Hygiene, Army Medical School; Sir Joseph Fayrer, K.C.S.I., LL.D., F.B.S., Surgeon-General, Honorary Physician to Her Majesty the Queen and to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Physician to the Council of India; Sir William W. Gull, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., Physician Extraordinary to Her Majesty the Queen, Physician in Ordinary to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; SirW. Guyer...
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The Official Refutation of Dr. Robert Koch’s Theory of Cholera and Commas. J Cell Sci 1 February 1886; s2-26 (102): 303–316. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.s2-26.102.303
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