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On the Mode of Communication of Cholera
John Snow · 2020 · 34 pages
Communicable diseases, transmissionEpidemiology
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On the Mode of Communication of Cholera (1848) is an essay by English physician John Snow wherein he presents his theory that diseases such as cholera and the plague were not caused by bad air, but by germs that were spread by contaminated water, dirty clothing, and fecal contact.
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