RT Journal
T1 CHolera
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1959
FD October 31
VO 171
IS 9
SP 1272
OP 1272
DO 10.1001/jama.1959.03010270108032
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03010270108032
AB The author of this volume has brought together 1,000 pages of up-to-date information on cholera. The 11 listed chapters were printed as separate articles in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization prior to this revision. The effects of cholera on a person, population, community, state, nation, and international affairs and all phases of patient medical care, disease control, and prevention are adequately related in this book. Cholera, which Hippocrates described as a disease entity, has been the cause of six pandemics, some of which extended to the United States, in the past century. Cholera was the cause of 1,000 deaths in Calcutta as recently as 1955.