"Cholera." From its probable origins in South Asia, cholera emerged as a terrible scourge of European and American city-dwellers during the nineteenth century. People had as little an idea of what caused it as they did of malaria and yellow fever--until the research of the Englishman John Snow helped usher in the modern age of epidemiology.

Dr. Daniel Breen is a professor of Legal Studies at Brandeis University. Dr. Breen has a BA from the University of Wisconsin, a JD from the University of Georgia and a PhD in History from Boston College. He has taught at Framingham State University and Newbury College.

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