This is a medical treatise by John Snow discussing the transmission of cholera. It is significant for its groundbreaking epidemiological investigation and its role in establishing the germ theory of disease.
Sources for John Snow — On the Mode of Communication of Cholera
John Snow — On the Mode of Communication of Cholera in Medicine
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