The dark brown liqueur was allegedly invented as a cure for cholera in 1831.
"When are they going to give her the cure for cholera?" the mother asked visitors.
His public speaking skills were so prized that he was thought to be a doctor and was pressed into service to cure an apparent cholera epidemic on board a riverboat by giving his patients a dose of nitrous oxide.
Historically, rivers like the Ganges were thought to cure infectious diseases, e.g., cholera or leprosy.
To cure one "stubborn" attack of cholera she added 10 grains of "sugar of lead" (lead acetate) in a pint of water, a tablespoonful every quarter hour.
It's like cholera: you may cure everyone, you may contain the epidemic, but if you don't clean up the water supply, people will soon get sick again.
He moved millions of tons of earth, built hundreds of miles of sewers and cured the metropolis of the cholera, typhoid and stink that had characterised it during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Roots are acrid and bitter which are used as carminative, laxative and are also used for curing blood diseases, burning sensation, cholera, skin disease, throat troubles, and ulcers [ 3].
Ehrenreich notes that although this new style of positive thinking did apparently help invalidism or neurasthenia, it had no effect whatsoever on diseases such as diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhus, tuberculosis and cholera – just as, today, it will not cure cancer.
