cholerinen.
/ˈkɒlərʌɪn/, /ˈkɒlərɪn/, U.S. /ˈkɑləˌraɪn/, /ˈkɑləˌrin/ Medicine.
1. Relatively mild diarrhoeal illness occurring in a population during an epidemic of cholera (cholera n. 4); spec. epidemic cholera in a mild form. Now chiefly historical.In quot. 1847 = cholera n. 3.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > summer cholera
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1832 London Med. Gaz. 12 May 198/1 In Cork the disease seems to be modified as in Dublin. In both cities much cholerine has been experienced.
1847 E. J. Seymour Severe Dis. I. 57 What used to be called cholera, and is by some now called cholerine..occurs in the height of summer from sudden chill, improper food, or travelling.
1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 28 July (1954) II. 471 An attack of Cholerine during our last week at Munich—which I reckon among my pleasures because I was nursed so tenderly.
1866 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 18 Aug. 356/2 An attentive observer may trace up every grade from the merest cholerine to the terrible disease which kills inevitably in a few hours.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 202 In cholerine, and even to some extent in cholera, camphor is a very efficient remedy.
1931 Lancet 24 Jan. 210/2 Thus in times past cholera, still more dreaded, was hidden under the mantle of ‘cholerine’.
1957 Bull. World Health Org. 16 299 Were it not for the undesirability of using unfamiliar terms, the name of cholera minor would be preferable to that of cholerine, because the latter is sometimes incorrectly used to designate gastro-intestinal affections not caused by the V. cholerae, or..even the prodromal diarrhoea held by some observers to precede typically severe cholera attacks.
2012 Notes & Rec. Royal Soc. 66 41 In fact, people were allegedly suffering mostly from cholerine, typhus or simple gastritis, rather than from the ‘guest from the Ganges’, as cholera was later called.
2. Esp. in the terminology of W. Farr: the causative agent of cholera. Now historical and rare.
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1842 W. Farr in 4th Ann. Rep. Registrar-Gen. Births, Deaths, & Marriages Eng. App. 119 (table) [Disease] Cholera. [Zymotic principle] Cholerine.
1866 Lancet 24 Nov. 588/1 The Registrar-General says:—‘Dr. Frankland has investigated some of the physical properties of cholera stuff (cholerine).’
1915 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 Aug. 251/2 The matter (cholerine) inducing epidemic cholera was apparently diffused all over England in 1849.
2003 P. Vinten-Johansen et al. Cholera, Chloroform, & Sci. of Med. vii. 183 Farr assigned names for the unseen but hypothesized exciting causes, so that..smallpox (variola) was caused by the poison ‘varioline’, cholera by ‘cholerine’, and so on.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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