Most people have heard of cholera, but few know anything about John Snow, the British doctor who determined how the disease is spread. Epidemiologist Ralph R. Frerichs of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health has created a Web site devoted to Snow’s life and accomplishments, including such items as the full text of Snow’s 1855 treatise on the occurrence of cholera in London.

Go to: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html

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