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Part of John Snow's map of cholera cases centered around the Braod Street pump in Soho, London, 1854. To read more about Dr. John Snow, look here.

I teach a course at Boston University School of Public Healthy in public health history built around a series of Great Calamities. I continue to come across interesting little stories which I'll periodically add here:

• Dioxin Embalming Fluid (real but not what you might think!)
• the North Boston, NY typhoid epidemic of 1842
• the California Waters of Life
• my great grandfather and his connection with Bavarian hygienist Max von Pettenkofer

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