The medical detective : John Snow, cholera and the mystery of the broad street pump /
Sandra Hempel
- London : Granta Books, 2007
- viii, 308 p. : il.
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This book try the Colera 's history, horrifying and deadly disease that in 1831 from Asia swept across Continental Europe, killing millios in its path and throwing th e medical profession into chaos. Cholera was a killer with little respect for class or wealth, and when it arrived in Britain, its repercussions rocked Victorian England. One man, John Snow, alone and unrecognized, unconvered the truth behind the pandemic and laid the foundations for the modern investigation of today 's fatal plagues
9781862079373
Snow, John, 1813-1558
Cólera (Enfermedad) --Historia --Siglo XIX Epidemiólogos --Biografías--Gran Bretaña