Medicine chest for cholera, English, 1849-1900.

This chest contains medicines for the treatment of cholera, an infectious gastrointestinal disease. Cholera epidemics swept across Europe and America from the 1830s onwards. In Britain, Dr John Snow (1813-1858) famously traced the source of a cholera outbreak to a particular water pump, thus proving that it was a water-borne disease that could be prevented by improved sanitation. Made by Godfrey & Cooke.