Indian cholera

In the 1800s, as cholera spread from the Indian subcontinent to Europe, British newspapers began calling it “Indian cholera,” depicting the disease as a figure in a turban and robes.

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

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.

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

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