8 sentences with 'cholera'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cholera and other words derived from it.
• « In Vienna in 1836 and in London eighteen years later, they treated some of those affected by a cholera outbreak with homeopathy. »
• « In those years, Andrew Still (1828-1917) was a simple American doctor, treating Indians and very poor people in Kansas. A cholera epidemic awakened his capacity as an investigator. »
• « On that occasion, two of Still's sons fell ill with cholera. The doctor could not save them, but he was able to intuit that in the same organism lay the principles of healing. »
• « This led to major advances in municipal planning, such as modern sewerage systems - London's was built in 1848 after a terrible cholera epidemic. »
• « The construction of Iraq's other major chemical weapons plant in Salman Pak, a little south of Baghdad, was also led by a German firm, Thyssen Rheinstahl Technik. According to the German weekly Stern, the Diyala project, the codename for the programme, in addition to chemical compounds, produced various biological weapons - capable of causing epidemics of cholera, typhoid and anthrax - in underground laboratories, the construction of which was also carried out by the company. »
• « Certain soil germs can cause serious diseases such as tetanus, anthrax, cholera and dysentery. »
• « Skidmore died in 1832 when a cholera epidemic swept through New York City, but the state of New York abolished imprisonment for debt that same year. »