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Packed cell volume, oxygen and carbon dioxide content of the whole blood and bicarbonate of the plasma were determined in 30 cholera patients and in 10 normal subjects. While there was no change in the oxygen content of the whole blood in patients suffering from cholera, the patients had a low plasma level of bicarbonate. Cholera patients suffer from acidemia and not from anoxemia.
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