46 ~" ANALYTIC SECT. VII. 
and call this disease Indian cholera. To this 
appellation, however, I would be understood 
to attach no value whatever, as the disease is 
altogether sui generis. 
xc. The Indian cholera being annually ende- 
mial on the Coromandel coast, is well known to the 
Hindoos, and is treated of at considerable length 
in their sacred writings. In the first wars of the 
English in the Deccan, it was very destructive 
among the native troops, and even fifty Europeans 
fell victims to it; a frightful loss, when it is 
recollected, that the armies of Lawrence and 
Clive seldom contained a thousand men. 
xci. The Indian cholera prevailed epidemically 
in Mysore and Arcot during 1780 and 1782. In 
1818, during the war against the Raja of Nagpore, 
it pervaded every division and battalion of the 
British army; in three days, one European regi- 
ment lost no less than 330 soldiers and camp- 
followers. When it assumes its most epidemic 
form, it suspends, for a time, the ordinary business 
of life; and sometimes, even arrests the progress 
of military movements; passengers attacked by 
it in the street, drop down, and often expire on 
the spot where they are taken ill. 
xc. The Indian cholera is the same as the 
epidemic spasm of Bontius; and Kempfer ob- 
served a disease among the Japanese, which bears 
a close resemblance to it in many respects. 
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