Both Uses of
cholera
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- A few minutes after the scene of confusion produced in the salons of M. Danglars by the unexpected appearance of the brigade of soldiers, and by the disclosure which had followed, the mansion was deserted with as much rapidity as if a case of plague or of cholera morbus had broken out among the guests.†
Chpt 97-98
- I carried the infection of crime with me, and she has caught it as she would the typhus fever, the cholera, the plague!†
Chpt 111-112 *
Definition:
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(cholera) an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food