THE ATHENAEUMOn the Mode of Communication of CholeraJohn Snow
Medicine
On the Mode of Communication of Cholera
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textJohn Snow, a London doctor, argued that cholera was carried in water and not in bad air, as nearly everyone then believed. The second edition, of 1855, added the outbreak around the pump in Broad Street, Soho, and the map of its deaths that lies on the table in the Map Room next door. He was also the doctor who gave Queen Victoria chloroform when Prince Leopold was born.
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- Project Gutenberg, eBook #72894. In the public domain in the United States.