Asiatic cholera

Cholera was called “Asiatic cholera” in the 1800s and tuberculosis called the “Jewish disease” in the 1900s.

As a child, he contracted two grave illnesses sweeping the Indian subcontinent — Asiatic cholera and kala azar, also known as black fever or leishmaniasis.

He died there of Asiatic cholera in the summer of 1832.

In some of the cases observed by Levick80 the symptoms were those of pernicious congestive remittent fever, such as copious serous discharges, not unlike those of Asiatic cholera, colliquative sweats, and other symptoms of exhaustion.

The Indian or Asiatic cholera traversed the north, east and south of Europe, and the countries of Asia, and, in two years, prostrated 900,000 victims.