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But John Snow, an English physician who supported the germ theory, was armed with another tool his peers overlooked: cartography. By mapping the number and locations of cholera cases, John Snow ...
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Snow compiled data on the two sets of London households and found that during an 1854 epidemic there were 315 deaths from cholera per 10,000 homes among those supplied by Southwark-Vauxhall but ...
In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox’s Phil Edwards explores the story behind Dr. John Snow’s famous map of the Broad Street pump. In 1854, news spread about a mysterious new cholera outbreak ...
Ghost Map details Snow's efforts to prove his theory that cholera was a water-borne illness. Johnson, author of the provocative Everything Bad Is Good For You, which laid a defense for video games ...
Game of Thrones' Jon Snow may know nothing, but the real-life John Snow knew a heck of a lot. In fact, the 19th century Snow helped found the entire field of epidemiology with his revolutionary ...
This article is excerpted from Tom Koch's lecture, “Cholera in 1850s London: John Snow and his contemporaries,” presented May 8, 2008 at the Warburg Institute, University of London. Tom Koch has ...
In a now legendary experiment in 1854, Dr. John Snow, a London physician, conducted a simple yet brilliant test that helped to settle the debate about the transmission of cholera. Snow drew a map [see ...
John Snow, a prominent anesthesiologist, was convinced otherwise. “He was the original intellectual maverick,” says Ralph Frerichs, professor emeritus of epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public ...
At the request of Dr. John Snow, what did the public health officials do to end the Golden Square cholera outbreak? The Ghost Map was constructed after the Golden Square cholera outbreak ended.