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1. The ghost map: the story of London's most terrifying epidemic-- and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world

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Author:
Johnson, Steven
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
614.514 JOHNS
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A chronicle of Victorian London's worst cholera outbreak traces the day-by-day efforts of Dr. John Snow, who put his own life on the line in his efforts to prove his previously dismissed contagion theory about how the epidemic was spreading.