The Ghost Map (Johnson, 2006)
1854 · Resource
Steven Johnson's account of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak and how John Snow's map of the dead proved cholera travelled in water, years before germ theory could explain why.
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Around 1854
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)