Each time it follows the great national highways. and each time it is largely distributed by the United States Army. which it at the same time decimates. The last great twelveyearly cholera epidemic commenced in India in April. 1865. By means of railroads and steamboats it travele(l more rapidly than it had in previous years. reaching Mecca. on the Red Sea. by May 2. Alexandria by June 2. and England by the 10th of July. Emigrant ships soon brought it to New York City. where it readily passed the local quarantine. made a center of distribution of the great city. and from thence spread along the railroads and highways of travel all over the country. This author. Dr.
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