On Cholera in Persia, 1866-68
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have occasionally added information obtained from other authentic sources, so as to render the text clear and connected throughout. I believe the outbreak to have been a link of the widespread epidemic of 1865, which penetrated into that kingdom by way of Bagdad, on the return of the pilgrims from Mecca, as related in the report of the International Cholera Conference of 1866, which treats of the " March and mode of propagation of that Epidemic/' and which shows the course followed by the malady as far as Suleimanieh, and brings the date up to the 13th February, 1866. From thence cholera pursued its course into Persia, through the province of Azerbidjan, following a north-easterly direction, while at the same time it entered the Persian territory also by way of Khanikin to Kirmanshah, Hamadan, &c. I have divided my subject into two parts. The first treats of cholera from its arrival in Persia as here stated, in the spring of 1866, until the cessation of the outbreak at Tehran, in the autumn of 1868, and forms the subject of the present memoir. The second part will contain a history of the recrudescence that followed it at Tehran in the month of November, and the march of the malady in a south-west-
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