In the years 1848–49, and again in 1853–54, cholera travelled to Europe and England from the East, taking much the same route as it did in 1831–32 ... to that part of London.

What if the famous map of Broad Street played no role in determining how cholera spread? Or if John Snow didn't make the storied map?

The London cholera epidemic of 1854 may be the primary subject of Steven Johnson's thought-provoking The Ghost Map, but it's the many secondary subjects that make it such an engaging read.

The appearance of cholera from Asia in 1831 provided another powerful incentive ... Water closets were adopted by the more affluent households of London in the early 19th century, in place ...

noted James Kennedy of the Royal College of Surgeons in London in his book The History of Contagious Cholera (1831), which studied the spread of the disease through British seamen. He also gave the ...

While cholera may have been killing people as far back as 400 B.C., it didn't start affecting the Americas until the second cholera pandemic began in 1829. Numerous other cholera pandemics ...

It would take five more years for John Snow to make his famous map of the London cholera outbreak around the Broad Street pump, and another 30 years before Robert Koch linked cholera with the ...

In 1854, a cholera epidemic swept through the London neighborhood of Soho. In the course of about three weeks, over 600 people died. This incident was, tragically, not unusual in London or the ...

Since the first epidemic in 1831 all the countries in Western Europe have taken a lively interest in the behaviour of cholera in Poland and have actively collaborated with the Government of that ...

A London Times editorial published in 1854 read, "We prefer to take our chance with cholera and the rest than be bullied into health. There is nothing a man hates so much as being cleansed against ...