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© 1983 Oxford University Press

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John Snow, the Broad Street Pump and Modern Epidemiology

DONALD CAMERON* and IAN G JONES{dagger}

*Department of Community Medicine. Usher Institute. Edinburgh University Scotland
{dagger}Department of Community Medicine. Fife Health Board Glenrothes, Scotland

John Snow was a genius in epidemiology. His achievement was to evolve an elegant, internally and externally consistent theory which concerned the mechanisms and processes involved in every aspect of the subject he had chosen to study. In order to do this he did not restrict himself to any method. He used all skills available to himself and his colleagues. He published his theory, and practical suggestions for the prevention of cholera arising out of it, both internally in medical meetings and to the medical press, and to the public in the form of pamphlets and in reports addressed to the appropriate authority. This surely should be the objective of all epidemiological work.

Received 1 January 1983


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