John Snow, Asiatic Cholera and the inductive-deductive method
Lecture 2. The person-to-person spread of cholera
Last week we summarised Snow’s life. In today’s post, we will follow Snow’s description of the cholera epidemics of his time. On Thursday, we will describe Snow’s deduction on the incubation period and the problems arising from the definition of stable numerators and denominators.
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