[A predicted epidemic. The appearance of cholera in 1832 in southwest France].

In 1832 the epidemic cholera provoked the fear of a new plague on the banks of the Garonne and the administrative measures to struggle against the illness as the sprawling epidemic could be delimited in three departments. The author describes the clinical pictures of the illness and underlines the prophylactic measures which followed from epidemics of previous centuries and lasted until pasteurism, the increasing hygiene and the apparition of chemical treatments.