He kept getting ill, several illnesses at once.
There was no doubt that many other people spent money they could ill afford to treat illnesses that were wrongly diagnosed in the first place.MELISSA ANDERSONVictoria, CanadaNo funSIR Perhaps the anti-euro No campaigners could take a leaf from the 1960s anti-draft movement in America ("Culture wars on Europe", September 9th).
The work that Snow, who was born 200 years ago last Friday, undertook to prove his case remains a classic of medical detection and reveals Snow as one of the founders of epidemiology, a science that has since helped unravel the causes of a host of illnesses and saved countless lives.
Community-based healthcare should be limited to major illnesses: Each health concern you ask a community health worker to address adds complexity of training, supply chain and culture.
One of the devils has the sores and grey skin that appear in other parts of the altarpiece and evoke the illnesses treated there.
People with personality disorders tend to function fairly well (as opposed to, say, those with psychotic illnesses) until the pressure really piles on.
Without treatment for HIV, for instance, the immune systems of those infected can become seriously damaged and they will develop life-threatening illnesses such as cancer.
Alcohol-related illnesses and incidents (including accidents, violence and suicide in which alcohol has factored) are the most common cause of death for both working age men and women there – and have been so for many years.
Some of the infections happened in a building being used as an isolation centre, where people who will have had other illnesses with similar symptoms such as malaria were being held with those who turned out to have Ebola.
Clifton Ward in Southmead Hospital had 19 beds, was always fully occupied, and provided care for people with a range of illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder and major depression.
"Most of my friends died from Aids-related illnesses," says Pfahler. "It was like a horror movie, watching people with angina, their bodies blowing up, people wearing germ jumpsuits… You can't ever erase these intense images from your eyes.
