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John Snow, Asiatic Cholera and the inductive-deductive method - republished

John Snow, Asiatic Cholera and the inductive-deductive method - republished

The person-to-person spread of cholera: Lecture 2.

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 In the last post, we summarised Snow’s life.

John Snow, Asiatic Cholera and the inductive-deductive method - republished

John Snow, Asiatic Cholera and the inductive-deductive method - republished

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In today’s post, we follow Snow’s description of the cholera epidemics of his time. Subsequently, we describe Snow’s deduction on the incubation period and the problems defining stable numerators and denominators.

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