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Indian cholera

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noun

  1. another name for cholera

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Rajah of Bundelpore had a very bad attack of Indian cholera one night.

From Love of Brothers by Tynan, Katharine

I have stayed down in the plains through the hot season in stifling cantonments, and I have once or twice been in Indian cholera camps.

From Hawtrey's Deputy by Cuneo, Cyrus

So true it is, that that symptom, considered as one of the characteristics of the Indian cholera, was observed in ancient times.

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)

I have stayed down in the plains through the hot season in stifling cantonments, and have once or twice been in Indian cholera camps.

From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Bindloss, Harold

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