Asiatic cholera
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Asiatic cholera
First recorded in 1825–35
Example Sentences
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In the 1840s and 1850s the U. S. was periodically swept by Asiatic cholera.
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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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At Brentford the people disputed hotly about it, some alleging it was not Asiatic cholera, fearing that the prevalence of that epidemic would be detrimental to the little trade of the town.
From Glimpses of King William IV. and Queen Adelaide In Letters of the Late Miss Clitherow, of Boston House, Middlesex. With a Brief Account of Boston House and the Clitherow Family by Mary Clitherow
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