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Cholera, Miasma Theory, 1831

Cholera as Death emanating a deadly black cloud that kills soldiers on both sides of the battlefield. From McLean's Monthly Sheet of Caricatures, October 1st, 1831. Illustration by Robert Seymour (1798-1836). The miasma theory held that diseases such as cholera were caused by a miasma, a noxious form of bad air. In reality, cholera was caused by the consumption of water or food containing the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.
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Cholera, Miasma Theory, 1831
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Cholera as Death emanating a deadly black cloud that kills soldiers on both sides of the battlefield. From McLean's Monthly Sheet of Caricatures, October 1st, 1831. Illustration by Robert Seymour (1798-1836). The miasma theory held that diseases such as cholera were caused by a miasma, a noxious form of bad air. In reality, cholera was caused by the consumption of water or food containing the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.
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1831 • 19TH CENTURY • 19TH • ALLEGORY • ART • BACTERIA • BATTLE • CARICATURES • CENTURY • CHOLERA • CHOLERAE • DEATH • DISEASE • DYING • EPIDEMIC • EUROPE • HISTORIC • HISTORY • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • MCLEAN'S • MEDICAL • MEDICINAL • MEDICINE • MIASMA • MONTHLY • PANDEMIC • ROBERT • SEYMOUR • SHEET • SOLDIERS • THEORY • VIBRIO • VICTIMS • WARSAW • XIX CENTURY