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Between 1850 and 1884, John Netten Radcliffe worked with both the Epidemiological Society of London and the Medical Department. Epidemiology was becoming an established discipline around this time, and the physician became a specialist of both information and foreign epidemics. His investigations focused not only on the global and local spaces of epidemics, but their pasts and presents as well. His expertise contributed to putting prophylaxis into practice, as well as preventing epidemics and fulfilling the interests of Victorian Britain.