Report on the Recent Epidemic of Cholera (1865-1866)
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In September, 1865, the Council of the Society presented to the Foreign Office a memorial concerning the then recent extension of cholera along the shores of the Mediterranean. After referring to previous pandemics of this destructive disease, the memorial stated that, " hitherto the information before the profession respecting the exact course of the development of cholera in the several epidemics which had traversed Europe, had been far from being either so correct or
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تاریخ انتشار 2017