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Why could doctors provide their services
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in the midst of an epidemic of cholera
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and yet not fall ill of it themselves?
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What caused the pronounced seasonality of cholera?
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Why was its onset almost invariably in the spring and the summer?
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And why did an outbreak always seem to ebb
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with the onset of cold weather?
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And then lastly, for the moment,
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there was what we might call the problem of Lyon;
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that is, the great second city of France.
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If cholera is contagious, and if it follows the great
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routes of trade and population movement,