Excerpt from Asiatic Cholera
If a ship laden with poisonous serpents should stop on its passage at different ports, where no such reptiles existed, and soon after its arrival these veno mous creatures should be observed in those ports, the natural inference would be that they had been brought thither by that ship and it would not be a sufficient reason for disbelieving it, that in some other ports touched by the same vessel, no such reptiles had subsequently made their appearance.
Something has been learned of the characteristics of this pestilence, although very, much still remains in obscurity.
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