Asiatic cholera
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Asiatic cholera
First recorded in 1825–35
Example Sentences
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For dust-jacket purposes, it may be described as the stirring adventures of a young Italian officer making his way home through the south of France during the terrible 1838 epi demic of Asiatic cholera.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the 1840s and 1850s the U. S. was periodically swept by Asiatic cholera.
From Time Magazine Archive
Asiatic cholera decimated many towns in the 1830s and '40s.
From Time Magazine Archive
Special bacteriophage has also been successful against Asiatic cholera, bubonic plague.*
From Time Magazine Archive
I once had a child severely sick, at a season of the year when not only the Asiatic cholera prevailed, but also the cholera morbus.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
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