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The protagonists of this real-life medical thriller are Dr. John Snow, a physician firm in his resolve of proving that there was ‘something in the water’ culpable for the mayhem, making him a solitary crusader of sorts with the majority of the medical fraternity espousing the miasma theory as it was, and Henry Whitehead, an affable and benevolent assistant priest who didn’t quite think Snow’s waterborne theory held much water and instead decided to debunk it for certain through his own interactions with the community’s casualties. Little were sceptics to realize that this confluence would culminate in a definitive and groundbreaking revelation for the entire medical universe. Meticulously plotting a graphical representation of those afflicted by the disease and correlating it to water resources in each area – the ghost map, the nomenclature it was accorded – Snow deployed his scientific acumen to the exhaustive extent of information derived from young Whitehead’s networking with households in the region. The outcome was a vindication of Snow’s initial hypothesis, an overhaul of London’s drainage mechanism that booted cholera out for good, and a blessing for the planet at large towards prevention of the ailment.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

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