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
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
In the 1840s and 1850s the U. S. was periodically swept by Asiatic cholera.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is true only in a limited degree, and indeed only upon a superficial survey of the symptoms, that the effects of irritant poisoning are like those produced by Asiatic cholera.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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