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A Short History of the National Institutes of Health
  The cholera epidemic of the nineteenth century  
   
   An artist's rendition of the cholera epidemic of the nineteenth century  
     
  Not Known in the western hemisphere before 1830, cholera became one of the most feared epidemic diseases of the nineteenth century.  
     
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