On Asiatic Cholera in Our Fleets and Ships

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  • William Smart
چکیده

so far as it has been experienced in the Royal Navy, which has been the principal field for observation. But as the disease has always been drawn from the land into ships, it may be unavoidable to refer thereto as we go on. The Portuguese founded Goa in 1510, having captured its fine harbours from the Arabs, and soon after that they became acquainted with the disease as the mordeshi; and it is said that in 1540 they suffered an epidemic, and another in the eighteenth century, which caused the abandonment of the ancient city, and the building of another on the present site. The Dutch founded their city of Batavia in 1619, on the marshy site of an old mercantile town called Jacatra, and it continues to be the most unhealthy town in the East Indies. In 1629 Bontius described this disease as he saw it there.

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دوره 5  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2017