An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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CHÂTEAUNEUF, Louis-François Benoiston de

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Rapport sur la marche et les effets du choléra-morbus dans Paris et les communes rurales du département de la Seine par la commission nommée, avec l'approbation de M. le ministre du commerce et des travaux publics, par MM. les préfets de la Seine et de police; année 1832.

Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1834.

This work contained one of the earliest applications of spatial analysis in epidemiology—an early thematic map by geographer and cartographer Charles Picquet, in which the 48 districts of Paris were represented by gray-scale gradient according to the percentage of deaths from cholera per 1000 inhabitants. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.



Subjects: Cartography, Medical & Biological, DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics, DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics › Graphic Display of, EPIDEMIOLOGY, GRAPHIC DISPLAY of Medical & Scientific Information, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Cholera