![]() ![]() At the time, the predominant theory about how cholera and number of other diseases and ailments were spread was the miasmatic theory. Some Soho streets lost up to 12% of their population that fall. That same year, an epidemic broke out in London that claimed more than 600 hundred lives. Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic is one chapter (a 320 page chapter) in the journey humanity has taken from curing insanity by drilling holes in people’s skulls to modern medicine.įilippo Pacini was the first person to see the Vibrio choleraebacillus in 1854. It’s easy to forget that it took us thousands of years to get to where we are*. ![]() Some of the things we know now about medicine-hygiene prevents illness, the four humours are bunk, mercury doesn’t cure anything-seem so simple that medical history would be laughable if it hadn’t been so deadly. ![]()
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