John Snow And The Fight Against Cholera
Presenters: David Moore Synopsis: By the summer of 1831 cholera had become firmly established in the environment of the UK. The effects of this disease was devastating, people were dying in their thousands, there was no know cause and no known cure. Current medical knowledge thought that illness and disease was spread by bad air or miasma. A young apprentice doctor who treated cholera victims did not believed it was caused though bad air, but proving his theory became a challenge to the established medical and scientific beliefs of the time. This is the story of how John Snow changes out understanding of how diseases were spread, and how we could control it. This event clashed with another important event:- a lovely sunny evening. I must admit, I was going to log on, give it five minutes, then…
