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John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854: The History of the Outbreak and Its Impact on Public Health Measures

John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854: The History of the Outbreak and Its Impact on Public Health Measures

Paperback

Medical ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN13: 9798642274002
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 30 2020
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.11 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
*Includes pictures
*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts
*Includes a bibliography for further reading
Plague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginning. Societies and individuals have struggled to make sense of them, and more importantly they've often struggled to avoid them. Before the scientific age, people had no knowledge of the microbiological agents - unseen bacteria and viruses - which afflicted them, and thus the maladies were often ascribed to wrathful supernatural forces. Even when advances in knowledge posited natural causes for epidemics and pandemics, medicine struggled to deal with them, and for hundreds of years religion continued to work hand-in-hand with medicine.

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