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THE doubt which existed as to whether the outbreak in and about Toulon was true cholera or only the sporadic type of the disease must be regarded as set at rest; indeed, from the date when the details of the outbreak first became public, it is probable that those who declared the affection to be only of a local and sporadic character were mainly influenced by political motives. Dr. Fauvel apparently now stands alone in the determination not to admit that the epidemic is the same as that which is known as Asiatic in type, and the fact that the source of the infection cannot by any chance be attributed to England is almost enough of itself to mould the views of this able physician. The onset of the disease, the sudden outbursts during its subsequent course, its diffusion to other towns and places, and notably to Marseilles, and the fatality attending it, all prove that we have not to do with the disease which in this country goes by the name of English cholera, and which when occurring in hotter climates and under favouring conditions of filth is known as sporadic, but with true cholera, such as was imported into the south of France and into England from Alexandria in 1865 and 1866.
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Cholera at Toulon . Nature 30, 213–214 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030213a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/030213a0