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Cholera was called “Asiatic cholera” in the 1800s and tuberculosis called the “Jewish disease” in the 1900s.

As a child, he contracted two grave illnesses sweeping the Indian subcontinent — Asiatic cholera and kala azar, also known as black fever or leishmaniasis.

He died there of Asiatic cholera in the summer of 1832.

The inmates of the house were all immediately and suddenly seized with a disease resembling Asiatic cholera in all its malignity, and died.

The Indian or Asiatic cholera traversed the north, east and south of Europe, and the countries of Asia, and, in two years, prostrated 900,000 victims.