Cholera epidemic. France. Paris. Fumigation of travellers coming from Toulon and Marseille (port cities through which cholera was introduced from Asia), at the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranee railway station. Passengers and luggage were disinfected in a room by means of intense nitrous vapours for half an hour. As soon as the train arrived, passengers were moved to a special room which was immediately sprayed with sodium phenate, in considerable proportion, and there they were subjected to the action of the pungent vapours exhaled by some devices, charged with crystals of nitrous sulphuric acid. Meanwhile, police inspectors were taking down the names and addresses of the travellers. Drawing by Manuel Alcazar. Engraving by Bernardo Rico (1825-1894). The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana), 1884.