As the stream of refugees boiled and eddied out of Burma last week, the roads to India were littered with stiff bodies, lying on their backs, their hands clutching the air. These were the corpses of ...

The CHOLERA EPIDEMIC OF 1832 began in May when an immigrant ship landed at Quebec with cases of Asiatic cholera aboard. The disease spread through the city and quickly up the St. Lawrence River valley ...

THE literature of Cholera progresses with far greater strides than the scientific knowledge of Cholera. Here we have another large book devoted to the history of one disease, containing a digest of ...

Based on: The Bacteria in Asiatic Cholera. By K. Klein, M.D., F.R.S., Lecturer on General Anatomy and Physiology in the Medical School of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Professor of Bacteriology at the ...

As a tidal wave of cholera rolled across Asia, Africa and Europe, the Tribune reported on Dec. 14, 1853, that the dreaded disease had reached the East Coast. Its victims were immigrants who died ...

A leading journal in its field for more than three quarters of a century, the Bulletin spans the social, cultural, and scientific aspects of the history of medicine worldwide. Every issue includes ...

Based on: Asiatic Cholera: its Origin and Spread in Asia, Africa and Europe, Introduction into America through Canada; remote and proximate Causes, Symptoms and Pathology, and the various modes of ...

This childhood nursery rhyme is thought to have its origin during the Black Plague in London, 1655. It denoted a terrible rash, flowers as a preventative, sneezing, and eventual death. This was ...

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Little though it was known outside of Asia. China was rancid with cholera this summer, a pestilential menace to the rest of the globe. By last week, as cold weather crept over the country, the trouble ...

SO masterly and complete was the account which Koch gave in 1884 of the comma-bacillus, which he held to be the virus of cholera, that but little, if anything, has been added to our knowledge of its ...