The medical detective : John Snow, cholera and the mystery of the broad street pump / Sandra Hempel.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.Description: viii, 308 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN: - 1862078424
- 9781862078420
- John Snow and the mystery of cholera
- Medical detective
- Snow, John, 1813-1858
- Cholera -- Epidemiology -- History -- 19th century
- Epidemiologists -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Cholera -- epidemiology -- Great Britain
- Cholera -- history -- Great Britain
- Disease Outbreaks -- history -- Great Britain
- History, 19th Century -- Great Britain
- Physicians -- Great Britain -- Biography
- 614.514094109034 22
- RA644.C3 H46 2007
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Originally published: The medical detective. London. Granta, 2006.
Summary: Drawing on 19th century medical, political and personal records, this book describes John Snow's discovery that cholera is spread through drinking water. It also includes diversions into aspects of medical and social history - from Snow's tending of Queen Victoria in childbirth, to Leeuwenhoek's deliberate breeding of lice in his socks
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-302) and index.
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