Consistently Eccentric History

John Snow - The smell of that poo might knock you out, or will it?


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This week we are discussing the most deadly disease of the 1800s and the self-made doctor from the poorest part of York who set out to defeat it.


John Snow may have been born into filthy conditions but he grew up to be a poster boy for clean living. A vegetarian teetotaller who regularly attended church, he seemed like the kind of guy you would listen to when he suggested that contaminated water might be the cause of Cholera...


You know, as long as posh London doctors wouldn't discriminate based on what class someone was born into.


Guest Host: Evie Heathcote

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