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Excerpt from A Tratise on Asiatic Cholera III. Cholera Infantum, or choleriform diarrhoea, which is popularly known in the United States as summer complaint. The three diseases named are all characterized by more or less vomit ing, frequent watery discharges from the bowels, great prostration with a tendency to collapse, and usually a quick termination either in death or perfect recovery. Indeed the clinical symptoms of these maladies may be so much alike that, during an outbreak of epidemic cholera, it may appear impossible to decide, in a given case, what particular one we are dealing with. Nevertheless such apparent likeness by no means constitutes an actual identity, especially from the standpoint of etiology. And the view, still entertained by some writers of the present day, and according to which these diseases are mere gradations of one and the same malady, must be discarded as utterly untenable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.