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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 ...
- 16 June 1858 (aged 45), London, England
- 15 March 1813, York, England
Mar 30, 2018 · Snow concluded that access to uncontaminated water prevented them from cholera infection, while users of the Broad Street pump became infected. He persuaded the doubtful civic authorities to remove the handle from the Broad Street pump, and the already subsiding epidemic disappeared within a few days. As noted in Snow’s report on cholera:
- Theodore H. Tulchinsky
- 10.1016/B978-0-12-804571-8.00017-2
- 2018
- Case Studies in Public Health. 2018 : 77-99.
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.
- Ralph Frerichs
Mar 8, 2022 · March 8, 2022 Health & Medicine. John Snow Hunts the Blue Death. In showing that cholera spreads through tainted water, an English doctor helped lay epidemiology’s foundations. by Miriam Reid. A cholera victim exhibiting the bluish pallor characteristic of the disease. Illustration by John William Gear, 1832. Wellcome Collection.
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 health risk...
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.
John Snow © Snow was a British physician who is considered one of the founders of epidemiology for his work identifying the source of a cholera outbreak in 1854. John Snow was born into...
