![A cholera patient experimenting with remedies. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, [1832?].](/images/the_medical_detective/a_cholera_patient.png)
1831 and an unknown killer from the other side of the world
arrives on the Sunderland quayside. The death toll from cholera
will reach 100,000 before the disease is done.
One man, a reclusive genius called John Snow, works out how to
stop it spreading and in so doing lays the foundations for the
scientific investigation of today's fatal plagues. But no one
will believe him.
The Medical Detective draws extensively on nineteenth-century
medical, political and personal records to chart a huge medical
breakthrough as well as chronicling the race to stop the deaths.
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"Riveting"
The Sunday Times
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"Beautifully documented, highly informative and a pleasure to read"
The Times Literary Supplement