To swill or to smell: How John Snow determined the cause of cholera
3/24/202659 min
Daniel and Kelly dive into the history of medicine, and discuss the data John Snow collected to argue that cholera is transmitted through contaminated water and not foul-smelling air. These data bolstered the emerging germ theory of disease.
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