- All cases exhibiting vomiting and rice-water stools should be regarded as cholera and treated as such, but it is well to remember that at the commencement of cholera epidemic diarrhoea may be the only evidence of a mild attack of cholera, whilst death sometimes occurs (Cholera sicca) before either vomiting or diarrhoea has had time to occur. Bacteriological diagnosis should, whenever possible, be carried out.]
