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and it was the official doctrine of risanamento;
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that is, the rebuilding of Naples.
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Now, in the history of medicine and public health,
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and epidemiology, the cholera epidemic of 1854
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looms large, giving rise to two foundational
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texts of epidemiology, on opposite sides of the debate.
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On the one side we see John Snow;
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and you've read his On the Mode of Communication of cholera,
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the final version of which--it
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was first drafted in 1849,
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but the draft that you have appeared after this event.
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And this was the classic statement of the contagionist view,