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▶ cholera |
2. | A 2018-02-19 23:15:45 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
1. | A* 2018-02-16 21:23:03 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...> | |
Refs: | daij "In 1822 cholera first arrived in Japan, but it did not reach Edo, which is the old name of Tokyo, nor Kanagawa, a prefecture located next to Tokyo. During a second epidemic in 1858, 30,000 or so Japanese died and Kanagawa had a heavy toll. Cholera raged in Japan in 1877, 1879, 1882, 1886, 1890, 1891 and 1895." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11639554 So there might have been some relatively modern (e.g. post-Meiji) use |