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Mar 30, 2018 · As noted in Snow’s report on cholera: “The most terrible outbreak of cholera … took place (in London) in Broad Street, Golden Square, and the adjoining streets, a few weeks ago … there were upwards of five hundred fatal attacks of cholera in ten days.
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John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858) was an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology and early germ theory , in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in London's Soho , which he identified as a particular ...
This outbreak, which killed 616 people, is best known for the physician John Snow 's study of its causes and his hypothesis that germ-contaminated water was the source of cholera, rather than particles in the air (referred to as "miasma").
May 28, 2018 · An 1854 cholera outbreak in London confounded those who thought the disease was caused by miasma, or foul air. Enter John Snow, who had already made a name for himself by administering chloroform to Queen Victoria during childbirth. Snow was skeptical of the reigning miasmatic theory of disease because of his own experiences fighting cholera.
May 1, 2024 · John Snow was an English physician known for his seminal studies of cholera and widely viewed as the father of contemporary epidemiology. His best-known studies include his investigation of London’s Broad Street pump outbreak, which occurred in 1854, and his “Grand Experiment,” a study comparing.
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Aug 18, 2010 · SCIENCE. Cholera, John Snow and the Grand Experiment. A British physician first determined that cholera spread through contaminated water in the 1850s, but the disease remains a major...
May 26, 2010 · In September 1854, central London suffered an outbreak of cholera. 1 To stop that outbreak, Dr. John Snow made a map. By seeing, visually, where the cholera deaths were clustered, Snow showed that the water from a pump on Broad Street was to blame.
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