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panuruYesterday I had a giggling fit while listening to the latest Nature podcast. The person credited as the father of epidemiology? Yeah, he's named John Snow.
He is credited most famously for the discovery that cholera spreads via liquid rather than airborne contact. I imagine his detractors in the miasma theory camp saying "You know nothing, Jo[h]n Snow." He took no wife, did hold lands, but fathered no children. He wore no crowns, though won quite a bit of glory as the founder of the Epidemiological Society of London. He lived and died at his post, passing from a stroke in his office at the age of 45. He was the shield that guarded the realms of men from infectious disease.
On a related topic, although dire wolves are extinct, they were very much a real thing.
He is credited most famously for the discovery that cholera spreads via liquid rather than airborne contact. I imagine his detractors in the miasma theory camp saying "You know nothing, Jo[h]n Snow." He took no wife, did hold lands, but fathered no children. He wore no crowns, though won quite a bit of glory as the founder of the Epidemiological Society of London. He lived and died at his post, passing from a stroke in his office at the age of 45. He was the shield that guarded the realms of men from infectious disease.
On a related topic, although dire wolves are extinct, they were very much a real thing.
