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| 'I drank the cholera mixture in the presence of witnesses on the 7th of October. It tasted like very pure water! Some were anxious about me and begged that I would allow them to sacri-fice themselves for their old teacher, but I wished to act on the old medical principle, 'Fiat experimentum in corpore vili." I was right in regarding myself as "corpore vili." I am seventy-four years old, have had glycosuria for years, have not a single tooth in my head, and only use my artificial teeth when I have to make a speech, not needing them for mastica-tion, and I also feel other burdens of advancing age. Even if I had deceived myself and the experiment had endangered my life, I should face death calmly, for it would not be as a thought-less or cowardly suicide. I should die in the cause of science, like a soldier on the field of honor. Health and life, as I have often said, are very great earthly gifts, but not the highest. He who wishes to rank higher than the brute must be ready to sacri-fice even life and health for great ideals. However, to me the matter did not seem quite so tragic, for I was firmly convinced my <span grade2>x</span> could not kill without my <span grade2>y</span>.'" | 'I drank the cholera mixture in the presence of witnesses on the 7th of October. It tasted like very pure water! Some were anxious about me and begged that I would allow them to sacri-fice themselves for their old teacher, but I wished to act on the old medical principle, 'Fiat experimentum in corpore vili." I was right in regarding myself as "corpore vili." I am seventy-four years old, have had glycosuria for years, have not a single tooth in my head, and only use my artificial teeth when I have to make a speech, not needing them for mastica-tion, and I also feel other burdens of advancing age. Even if I had deceived myself and the experiment had endangered my life, I should face death calmly, for it would not be as a thought-less or cowardly suicide. I should die in the cause of science, like a soldier on the field of honor. Health and life, as I have often said, are very great earthly gifts, but not the highest. He who wishes to rank higher than the brute must be ready to sacri-fice even life and health for great ideals. However, to me the matter did not seem quite so tragic, for I was firmly convinced my <span grade2>x</span> could not kill without my <span grade2>y</span>.'" | ||
| - | May not the x of Von Pettenkoffer's equation be safely elimi-nated? Given the local conditions and the personal predisposi-tion, especially the latter, will these not produce the disease, and the disease in turn the "germ?" How else are the cases of "sporadic cholera," with full equipment of "comma bacilli," that occur every year in this country to be accounted for? | + | May not the x of Von Pettenkoffer's equation be safely eliminated? Given the local conditions and the personal predisposition, especially the latter, will these not produce the disease, and the disease in turn the "germ?" How else are the cases of "sporadic cholera," with full equipment of "comma bacilli," that occur every year in this country to be accounted for? |
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