[a. F. cholérine, dim. of choléra CHOLERA.]
1. British or Summer Cholera.
1847. E. J. Seymour, Severe Dis., I. 57. What used to be called cholera, and is by some now called cholerine … occurs in the height of summer from sudden chill, improper food, or travelling.
2. A mild diarrhœa that occurs extensively during the prevalence of malignant cholera; also applied to the early stage of cholera.
1850. Kinglake, Crimea, VI. v. 201. Assailed too by cholerine, by true cholera.
1865. Daily Tel., 16 Oct., 3/1. The cholera was decidedly better yesterday…. There was, however, a great outbreak of cholerine in the barracks.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 202. In cholerine, and even to some extent in cholera, camphor is a very efficient remedy.
3. ‘The zymotic cause of malignant cholera.’
1852. W. Farr, Rep., in Aitken, Sc. & Pract. Med. (1872), I. 653. A certain specific matter—the zymotic principle of Cholera, which he proposes to call cholerine.
