Poison the Water: A Victorian Cholera 'Cure'How experts made a deadly epidemic even worse.

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Historically Bad Advice

When a terrifying disease swept through 19th-century London, the top medical minds had a solution: clean the 'bad air' by dumping sewage into the city's main drinking supply. This is the story of how the accepted science of the day amplified a public health crisis. It took one physician, John Snow, to challenge the consensus and prove the outbreak was spreading through a contaminated pump, a discovery that would eventually change medicine forever.