1865 KOLER A SALGININDA MABEYN-İ HÜMAYUN ECZACISI VINCENT PECHE İLE ROBERT KOLEJ'DEN CYRUS HAMLIN'İN KULLANDIKLARI ANTİ KOL ERİK TERKİPLER

The 186 5 İstanbul cholera epidemic was the extension of the fourth world pandemic which broke out in Singapour and spread towards Europe via steamships and railroads. It reached Suez Canal in May 1865, and then Ceddah and the Mediterranean ports. After a five days* journey from Egypt, the steamship Muhbir'-! Siirur anchored in Istanbul on June 28th, 1865 and brought the disease to the Ottoman capital city. Since the Istanbul hospitals couldn't cope with the high number of patients, detachable clinics were opened in various parts of the city. All pharmacies were asked to provide drugs in gratis to the cholera patients. The pharmacists would be paid by the state as soon as the epidemic extinguished. Mobile units were organised to provide the pharmacies with necessary drugs. Drugstores such as Pharmacic Madella (in Galata) and Phannacie Delia Sudda (in P£ra) functioned as health stations throughout the epidemic which lasted 40 days long. The archival documents certify that a preparation by the pharmacist Vincent Peche from the Imperial Pharmacy proved effective and successful during the 1865 epidemic. This preparation became known as antîcholeric medicine, anticholeric liquid, tincture de Peche, Eİİksİr de P$che or mixture anticholerlque de M.Peche.