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Asiatic cholera   /ˌeɪʒiˈætɪk kˈɑlərə/   Listen
Asiatic cholera

noun
1.
An acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food.  Synonyms: cholera, epidemic cholera, Indian cholera.






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"Asiatic cholera" Quotes from Famous Books



... when it attains a certain degree of intensity. Once I had a good opportunity of observing this on board a large steamer on the Volga. It was a very hot day in the early autumn. As it was well known that there was a great deal of Asiatic cholera all over the country, prudent people refrained from eating much raw fruit; but Russian peasants are not generally prudent men, and I noticed that those on board were consuming enormous quantities of raw cucumbers and water-melons. This imprudence ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace

... wells to be driven. Whole villages and towns are still without means of communication other than almost impassable roads and trails. Even the great progress in sanitation, which has successfully suppressed smallpox, the bubonic plague, and Asiatic cholera, has found the cause of and a cure for beriberi, has segregated the lepers, has helped to make Manila the most healthful city in the Orient, and to free life throughout the whole archipelago from its former dread diseases, is ...
— State of the Union Addresses of William H. Taft • William H. Taft

... terrible fever had broken out round a stagnant pool in Whitechapel; that the people were dying by scores; and that the extreme malignity of the cases gave reason to apprehend that the disease was allied to Asiatic cholera. On hearing this, the Board, at Mr. Chadwick's instance, immediately appointed Drs. Arnott, Kay, and Southwood Smith to investigate the causes of this alarming mortality, and to report generally upon ...
— Thrift • Samuel Smiles

... the dense ignorance in which their rulers kept the Filipinos showed itself in 1819, when a French ship from India having introduced Asiatic cholera into the Islands, the lowest classes of Manila ascribed it to the collections of insects and reptiles which a French naturalist, who was a passenger upon the ship, had brought ashore. However the story ...
— Lineage, Life, and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot • Austin Craig



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