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cholera was preceded by a remarkable change in 

 the general character of the seasons. We are in- 

 formed by Dr. Foster, that the winter before it 

 made its appearance in India, was one of unusual 

 severity all over the northern hemisphere of the 

 old world, that snow covered the earth over a 

 large portion of northern Africa, and nearly the 

 whole of southern Europe. (Lancet, October 

 22nd, 1831.) 



Dr. Brown further informs us, in an article 

 contained in the fourth volume of the Cyclopedia 

 of Practical Medicine, that in the summer of 1 8 1 7, 

 cholera broke out in the Delta of the Ganges, 

 after an unusual disturbance of the seasons, with 

 respect to vicissitudes of heat and moisture, that 

 it commenced in the district of Nuddea, where the 

 whole year had been rainy, (with a succession of 

 thunder storms,) and the country flooded with 

 water. 



Dr. Billing maintains with Mr. Orton, that 

 cholera is essentially a febrile disease, whether 

 intermittent, remittent, or continued, that it is a 

 modification of the black death, the sweating 

 sickness, the plague described by Sydenham, 

 and subsequently by Frank, that whoever has 

 had much experience in ague, has seen all the 

 modifications of cholera, the cold stage with 

 spasms, corresponding with the convulsions of 

 cholera, the nausea and diarrhea of ague, cor- 

 responding with the vomiting and purging of 

 cholera, the blueness of the skin, low pulse, and 



