The Origin of the Cholera Epidemic of 1883 in Egypt
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break of 1883 in Egypt, but will be strictly limited to an endeavour to explain the origin of the outbreak, yet it will not, I trust, fail in creating an interest among the members of the Society. If it does this, it will have served the purpose for which it was written. Egypt is a very extensive country. It extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the Equator. It is not, however, this vast country which has been the scene of the recent epidemic of cholera, but rather Egypt proper, which includes the Delta and Upper Egypt as high as Assuan on the First Cataract. Its
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