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On the Mode of Communication of Cholera

by John Snow

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John Snow’s On the Mode of Communication of Cholera is where epidemiology begins: against the reigning miasma theory, Snow argues that cholera travels in water, and proves it with the Broad Street pump map and the great south London water-supply comparison.

One of the most consequential pieces of reasoning in the history of public health. Download the free EPUB.

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