Unpublished paper, 'Some of the phenomena of cholera only to be explained by a reference to the geology of the globe' by Adam Neale MD Neale attempts to provide an explanation for the 'capricious movement' of the cholera epidemic across England and Scotland, suggesting that cholera has most prominently affected towns and villages situated over coal formations, including Sunderland, Newcastle, Gateshead and Kirkintilloch. He concludes that many victims of cholera have been coalminers, and that hydrogen gas from the coal mines may combine with 'other causes' to make inhabitants of coalmining areas more susceptible to cholera. Subject: Medicine / Epidemiology Received 9 February 1832. Written by Neale in London. 08 February 1832