Asiatic cholera
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Asiatic cholera
First recorded in 1825–35
Example Sentences
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Special bacteriophage has also been successful against Asiatic cholera, bubonic plague.*
From Time Magazine Archive
In the 1840s and 1850s the U. S. was periodically swept by Asiatic cholera.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Asiatic cholera decimated many towns in the 1830s and '40s.
From Time Magazine Archive
The enemy which had come with the infantry over the great water was the most terrible known,—a disease so dread and devastating that men turned pale at the mere mention of its name—the Asiatic cholera.
From The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn by Evelyn Raymond
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