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there was nothing that physicians could do
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that was effective and helpful for their patients,
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and so the case fatality rate was something
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like fifty percent for Asiatic cholera.
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In 1908 and 1909, Leonard Rogers,
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who was a British physician working in India,
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had found that he could
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reduce the mortality
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from fifty to fifteen percent.
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The first major advance
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in therapeutics and he did it,
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one by a simple building on something