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London Stinks Part I: The Broad Street Pump

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In Part I of our series "London Stinks,", we will be exploring the immensely tragic, completely disgusting, but incredibly important story of the Broad Street Pump and how it changed science forever.

  • "The Lesson of John Snow and the Broad Street Pump" Mitali Banerjee Ruths, MD
  • "Once Deemed ‘Biologically Dead,’ a New Report Shows London’s River Thames Recovering" Rasha Aridi November 12, 2021 -
  • Sunderland and the Public Health Act
  • Cholera - Vibrio cholerae infection | Cholera | CDC
  • WHO: Cholera
  • Laing, W. B. “Removing The Pump Handle.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 5046, 1957, pp. 712–712. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25383945. Accessed 29 Jun. 2022.
  • The Mode of Propagation of Cholera Author(s): John Snow Source: Association Medical Journal , Feb. 16, 1856, Vol. 4, No. 163 (Feb. 16, 1856), p. 135 Published by: BMJ Stable
  • Smeele, Wietske. “Grounding Miasma, or Anticipating the Germ Theory of Disease in Victorian Cholera Satire.” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 49, no. 2, 2016, pp. 15–27. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44164803. Accessed 29 Jun. 2022.
  • "The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World" by Steven Johnson

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