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Prior to the work of John Snow people had very little concept of mechanisms of contagion. Consequently beliefs about the causes of cholera were often bizzare. The link shows an etching of a Figure of Death, wearing a robe and dancing slippers, playing a fiddle of human bones. The bodies of partygoers litter the dance floor as the musicians fearfully exit, instruments in hand.