The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera by Sandra Hempel

The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera

Sandra Hempel

331 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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In 1831, an unknown, horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across Continental Europe, killing millions in its path and throwing the medical profession into confusion. Cholera is a killer with little respect for class or wealth. When it arr...

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