The strange case of the Broad Street pump : John Snow and the mystery of cholera / Sandra Hempel.

Medical detective

John Snow and the mystery of cholera

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007], ©2007.

viii, 321 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm

Originally published: The medical detective. London. Granta, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-302) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction : The long journey -- 1. A country holds its breath -- 2. A desperate search -- 3. It's here -- 4. The surgeon's apprentice -- 5. A London training -- 6. A very peculiar man -- 7. A shameful state of affairs -- 8. A little light -- 9. Sensation -- 10. The grand experiment -- 11. A plague on their houses -- 12. The big idea -- 13. Proof positive -- 14. Euglenae and red cotton -- 15. The verdicts -- 16. End game -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Bibliographic essay -- Sources and background material -- Index.