John Snow, Asiatic Cholera and the inductive-deductive method - republished
The person-to-person spread of cholera: Lecture 2.
In the last post, we summarised Snow’s life.
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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