Excerpt from The Half-Yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences, Vol. 56: Being a Digest of British and Continental Medicine, and of the Progress of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences, July-December, 1872A. Internal Maladies. - Epidemic diseases. Such as variola, typhoid fever, dysentery, and cholera. Rage by preference amongst drunkards. With cholera in particular all statistics show that the number of admissions into hospitals has always attained its maximum on Tuesday and Wednesday - that is to say, on the two da 3 which follow that of excessive libation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.