John Snow, Asiatic Cholera and the inductive-deductive method

Introduction to the John Snow Course and Lecture 1

This is the first of a series of posts telling the story of Dr John Snow, a pioneer anaesthetist and epidemiologist.

After a brief biographical sketch, we shall follow Snow in his investigation of the mode of transmission of cholera in Victorian London, his premature death and the near oblivion to which his work was consigned for over 50 years, and its …