Asiatic cholera

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. cholera.

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Asiatic cholera British  

noun

1. another name for cholera

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Etymology

Origin of Asiatic cholera

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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Special bacteriophage has also been successful against Asiatic cholera, bubonic plague.*

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This man had the pale dejections, and several other symptoms, considered so characteristic of the Asiatic cholera; yet no spreading took place from him, nor ever will in similar cases.

From Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community. by Gillkrest, J. (James)