choleraic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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In setting out anew he takes a more northerly course, proceeding through paths blocked with very rank vegetation, and suffering from choleraic illness caused by constant wettings.
From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by William Garden Blaikie
In July, 1865, great alarm was caused by the fact of 243 inmates of the Workhouse being attacked with choleraic symptoms, but they all recovered.
From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Thomas T. Harman
They are useful for costive habits, and may be made into an electuary; but, when unripe, Plums provoke choleraic diarrhoea.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
Nor was the destruction delayed by placing choleraic excreta in or upon earth, dry or moist, or mixed with stagnant water.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various
The sufferers from this sow the germs of the disease in numerous, often distant and obscure, places, to which no choleraic person is supposed to have come.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various
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