German neuroanatomist physiologist Franz Joseph Gall, born OTD in 1758, was a pioneer in the localization of mental functions in the brain, although his work was largely the pseudoscience of #phrenology https://toilet-guru.com/cholera-pump.html?s=mb #medicine #PublicHealth
Cholera and John Snow's Pump — Victorian Plumbing

Dr John Snow discovered the source of the 1854 cholera epidemic in London. He disabled this pump and ended the outbreak, and is now a hero of public health. All this and more on the Toilets of the World.

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