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Meer Hassan Ali, B.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 2) — London, 1832

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118 THE CHOLERA.

corrupt adhesions which, in their opinion, is the
primary cause of the complaint.

The cholera, I observed, seldom attacked
abstemious people; when, however, this was
the case, it generally followed a full meal;
whether of rice or bread made but little dif-
ference, much I believe depending on the general
habit of the subject; as among the peasantry
and their superiors the complaint raged with
equal malignity, wherever a second meal was
resorted to whilst the person had reason to
believe the former one had not been well
digested. An instance of this occurred under
my own immediate observation in a woman,
the wife of an old and favourite servant. She
had imprudently eaten a second dinner, before
her stomach, by her own account, had digested
the preceding meal. She was not a strong
woman, but in tolerable good health; and
but a few hours previous to the attack I saw
her in excellent spirits, without the most re-
mote appearance of indisposition. The usual
applications failed of success, and she died in
a few hours. This poor woman never could be
 
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