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  1. Jan 1, 2007 · The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera. Hardcover – January 1, 2007. In 1831, an unknown, horrifying, and deadly disease from Asia swept across continental Europe and North America, killing millions and throwing the medical profession into confusion.

  2. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World is a book by Steven Berlin Johnson in which he describes the most intense outbreak of cholera in Victorian London and centers on John Snow and Henry Whitehead.

    • Steven Johnson
    • 2006
  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › John_SnowJohn Snow - Wikipedia

    John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858) was an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology and early germ theory , in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in London's Soho , which he identified as a particular ...

  4. John Snow. John Churchill, 1855 - Cholera - 162 pages. Snow expanded his reports on his cholera research in a book entitled On the Mode of Communication of Cholera published in London...

  5. May 6, 2015 · The Ghost Map describes John Snow's elegant investigations of the multiple epidemics of cholera in London in the mid-19th century. The book begins with a description of the squalid environmental conditions in London in 1854.

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