Excerpt from Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London Although accurate accounts of the disease only go back to 1817, a study of the history of cholera shows that it has with each successive pandemic wave obtained a wider geographical distribution, and that its area of occasional prevalence covers the greater part of the inhabited globe. Throughout this history there runs the important assump tion that the disease did not arise dc novo at each and every place where it has shown itself, but rather that it is indi genous at certain points on the earth's surface from which it tends to extend to other parts. 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.