I thought that it was interesting, the whole miasma theory. No one today would ever even consider believing that smell causes disease. But that is what i found interesting, when we look back at old medicine practices we laugh because of how ridiculous they are or how ignorant they were, but whose to say that we know much better than they did. Medicine has come a long way but it does bring you to question how many things modern medicine may be wrong about. In a hundred years people may laugh at the fact that we thought that skin cancer came from too much sun or that you could get lung cancer from second hand smoke. It will be interesting to see what science and medicine discover down the road.
This chapter also discusses Whitehead’s interaction with the people. It is almost like Holmes is a combination of these two, Snow and Whitehead, in that Snow has the book knowledge and whitehead has the street knowledge. Holmes is like a super character that can do it all, but there are a lot of similarities between the three.
