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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,
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to the extent that it could be supported
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without the definitive evidence later provided by microscopy.
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So, Snow did everything that it was possible to do,
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purely on the basis of epidemiological evidence.
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There was going to need to be a conceptual shift in order to
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clinch his view and demonstrate it
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so that it was broadly accepted.
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On the other side, we see a book that's been--it's