5 - The Map That (Almost) Changed the World

Science Solved It

English - May 23, 2017 04:01 - 18 minutes - 21.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
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In 1854, the London neighborhood of Soho experienced a deadly outbreak of cholera, a truly horrible disease. Doctors at the time were powerless to stop it because they didn’t actually understand how cholera spread, until one doctor—an anesthetist—used a map to completely change the way we investigate disease.

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