David Quammen Quote
Continuation of the outbreak depended on the likelihood of encounters between people who were infectious and people who could be infected. This idea became known as the mass action principle. It was all about math. The same year, 1906, a Scottish physician named John Brownlee proposed an alternate view, contrary to Hamer’s. Brownlee worked as a clinician and hospital administrator
David Quammen
Continuation of the outbreak depended on the likelihood of encounters between people who were infectious and people who could be infected. This idea became known as the mass action principle. It was all about math. The same year, 1906, a Scottish physician named John Brownlee proposed an alternate view, contrary to Hamer’s. Brownlee worked as a clinician and hospital administrator
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A collection of Quammen's drafts, research, and correspondence is housed in Texas Tech University's Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. The collection consists of approximately 63 boxes of publicly available literary production, artifacts, maps, and other papers dated from 1856–2014.