Ferran's anti-choleraic inoculations (Valencia, 1885)

In the cholera summer of 1885 a physician at Tortosa injected more than thirty thousand people in the villages of Valencia with a broth culture of Koch's comma bacillus. A French commission declared the results worthless; the American investigator sent three years later arrived expecting a charlatan, went to Tortosa to see for himself, and printed the Spanish official figures in English so his readers could judge. Both halves of that record are here.