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THE announcement by Dr. Koch, as chief of the German Cholera Commission, that he had discovered a micro-organism which was not only peculiar to cholera, but which had a causal relation to that disease, was all along felt by many to have been made on insufficient evidence, and in consequence the India Office in 1884 appointed Drs. Klein and Heneage Gibbes to visit Bombay, Calcutta, and other Indian cities, with view of studying the disease from the micro-pathological point of view. Their report was received early this year, and whilst it supported Koch's statements to the effect that choleraic dejections were generally characterised by the presence of the comma-shaped bacilli which had been described, it distinctly denied many of the assertions which had been made by that observer, and it altogether set aside the notion that the comma-bacillus bore any causative relation to the disease. The point at issue was felt to be of such importance that the India Office somewhat recently appointed a Committee of physicians to consider the report made by Klein and Gibbes, and to advise them on the matter.
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The Etiology of Cholera . Nature 33, 97–98 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/033097a0
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