The Dutch Cholera Epidemic of 1832 as seen through 19th Century Medical Publications

Using contemporaneous sources, Antoinette van der Kuyl tells the story of the first cholera epidemic in the Netherlands of 1832. Doctors quarrelled about the infectiousness, the cause, the treatment and the outcome of this new plague. In addition, they generally believed that what they had always done would be sufficient to cope with the new danger, with disastrous results. However, some lone visionaries did notice that drinking clean water protected from cholera.