This study is an expansion by AI of 2 records published by Skeptron, a studio in the RISCON family, and of the public-domain source texts listed below. Every sentence in a block quote is word for word either a record's own or a passage of a source text saved with this study, and its source line names which; the rest is AI writing. Skeptron's records are modern summaries of historical episodes written for a platform, not archival documents; they keep some of what the actors wrote and drop the rest, and the paper says which where it matters. The readings through the works named are this study's interpretation. Nothing in this study is advice on medical, public-health or policy decisions.
| Case | Studio | Record |
|---|---|---|
| The Broad Street Pump | Skeptron | https://skeptron.risconlabs.com/questions?question=HQ-HC2-SNOW1854-01 |
| Pasteur and Joseph Meister | Skeptron | https://skeptron.risconlabs.com/questions?question=HQ-HC6-PASTEUR1885-01 |
The source texts this study read are saved with it, and the passages it quotes from them stand in them word for word:
| Text | File | Address |
|---|---|---|
| John Snow, On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, second edition (1855), the outbreak near Golden Square (Broad Street) | sources/snow-mode-of-communication-1855.md | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72894/pg72894.txt |
| Louis Pasteur, « Méthode pour prévenir la rage après morsure » (26 octobre 1885), in French | sources/pasteur-1885-rage.md | https://archive.org/download/comptes-rendus-hebdomadaires-academie-des-sciences_1885-10-26_101_17/comptes-rendus-hebdomadaires-academie-des-sciences_1885-10-26_101_17_djvu.txt |
The records were read on 2026-10-06. The texts were fetched on 2026-10-06. This study was written on 2026-10-07.
Bibliography
- John Snow, On the Mode of Communication of Cholera (1855): second edition, the Broad Street outbreak.
- Louis Pasteur, Méthode pour prévenir la rage après morsure (1885): Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences 101 (1885), 765–772.
- Charles E. Rosenberg, Explaining Epidemics and Other Studies in the History of Medicine (1992).
- Gerald L. Geison, The Private Science of Louis Pasteur (1995).
- Bruno Latour, The Pasteurization of France (1988).
- Peter Vinten-Johansen, Howard Brody, Nigel Paneth, Stephen Rachman and Michael Rip, Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow (2003).
- Theodore M. Porter, Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life (1995).
- Erwin H. Ackerknecht, Anticontagionism between 1821 and 1867 (1948).
- Sheila Jasanoff, The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers (1990).
- Harry M. Marks, The Progress of Experiment: Science and Therapeutic Reform in the United States, 1900–1990 (1997).