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Cholera and John Snow

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Difference between Cholera and John Snow

Cholera vs. John Snow

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858) was an English physician and a leader in the adoption of anesthesia and medical hygiene.

Similarities between Cholera and John Snow

Cholera and John Snow have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): Epidemiology, Filippo Pacini, Hygiene, Miasma theory, Sewage treatment.

Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where) and determinants of health and disease conditions in defined populations.

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Filippo Pacini

Filippo Pacini (25 May 1812 – 9 July 1883) was an Italian anatomist, posthumously famous for isolating the cholera bacterium Vibrio cholerae in 1854, well before Robert Koch's more widely accepted discoveries 30 years later.

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Hygiene

Hygiene is a set of practices performed to preserve health.

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Miasma theory

The miasma theory (also called the miasmatic theory) is an obsolete medical theory that held that diseases—such as cholera, chlamydia, or the Black Death—were caused by a miasma (μίασμα, ancient Greek: "pollution"), a noxious form of "bad air", also known as night air.

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Sewage treatment

Sewage treatment is the process of removing contaminants from wastewater, primarily from household sewage.

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Cholera and John Snow Comparison

Cholera has 233 relations, while John Snow has 83. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 1.58% = 5 / (233 + 83).

References

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