Controlled Experiment: John Snow & Cholera
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Outline

  • Roots of Experiment
  • From Experiment to Controlled Experiment
  • Cholera in the 1800s
  • John Snow
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  • Discussion: Snow's reasoning 1853, 1855
  • Epilog
     

    VISUALS

    1. mercantilism, manufacturing and craft knowledge

    29. John Snow (1847)
    30. Queen Victoria & family (1846)
    31. London, 1844
    32. William Farr
    33. Broad Street
    34. John Snow (1857)
    35. "King cholera holding court"
    36. Farr's 1854 report (water companies)
    37. John Snow's 1853 map of Golden Square
    38. . . . showing Broad Street
    39. and the pump

    40. Soho Square
    41. pub sign
    42. John Snow Pub
    43. map
    44. Broad St., mid-1800s
    45. William Farr
    46. 1854 report
    47. King Cholera
    48. Snow & Farr
    49. Jacobs Island Bermondsey [JL Stewart, 1887]
    50. London attic
    51. Thames, 1828
    52. cartoon lampooing Southwark Water Works
    53. opening new London sewer, 1865
    54. Pasteur & Koch
    55. microscope
    56. Claude Bernard

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