In this essay "On the Mode of Cholera" he used both reasoned argument along with documentary evidence to show that cholera spread from person to person.
He gave examples of rows of houses on opposite sides to each other, and how all of the members in one row contracted cholera, while only one person on the opposite row contracted the disease.
Emitting visible light as a result of the excitation of phosphors by ultraviolet photons produced by the passage of an electrical current through an inert gas infused with mercury” is the definition of florescent.
Florescent makes visible light through fluorescence. Fluorescence simply deals with how light is emitted through a substance which has absorbed light.