Genre:

Extract, Miscellaneous

Publications extracted:

Asiatic Journal

Subjects:

Epidemiology, Disease, Death, Population, Medical Treatment, Superstition

    The article begins with the assertion that the various contagious diseases which had affected Europe at different periods 'came, with very few exceptions, from the east'. A footnote relates: 'The cholera morbus took its rise in Cochin China, and has now advanced as far as the Euphrates' (348).