Hiccough and Cholera
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Colour-Sergeant J. D., of the 2nd K. S L I.? On the evening of Wednesday, April 20th, the patient with several others in the Sergeants' Mess partook of some tinned salmon, which had been purchased privately in Cantonments; several of the others were taken ill with vomiting l>ut quickly recovered. The ahove patient, however, remained "queer" all the next day, 21st, and in the evening was taken ill with piofuse diarrhoea and was admitted to the
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