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John Snow

English epidemiologist and physician (1813–1858)

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Images by John Snow

4 images from works
  • On the mode of communication of cholera / by John Snow.
  • On continuous molecular changes, more particularly in their relation to epidemic diseases : being the oration delivered at the 80th anniversary of the Medical Society of London / by John Snow.
  • On the mode of communication of cholera / by John Snow.
  • On chloroform and other anaesthetics : their action and administration / by John Snow ; edited, with a memoir of the Author, by Benjamin W. Richardson.

Images featuring John Snow

2 images from works
  • Broad Street (latterly Broadwick Street), Soho, with a white silhouette replica of the Broad Street pump identifed by John Snow as a source of cholera-infected water. Photograph.
  • John Snow: his residence at 18 Sackville Street, London, showing the plaque in his honour. Photograph.

Works from the collections

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40 works

    • Books

    On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations / by John Snow ; edited by Akitomo Matsuki.

    John Snow | Date: [1987]
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    A lecture on the inhalation of vapour of ether in surgical operations / John Snow.

    John Snow | Date: 1965
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    On the inhalation of chloroform and ether ... [Read at the Westminister Med. Soc. Jan. 8, 1848] / By John Snow.

    John Snow | Date: 1848
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    Report on the cholera outbreak in the parish of St. James, Westminster, during the autumn of 1854 / presented to the Vestry by the Cholera Inquiry Committee.

    Saint James (Westminster, London, England : Parish). Cholera Inquiry Committee. | Date: 1855
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    On chloroform and other anaesthetics : their action and administration / by John Snow ; edited, with a memoir of the author, by Benjamin W. Richardson.

    John Snow | Date: 1858
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Frequent collaborators

Royal College of Surgeons of England

Related topics

Chloroform
Cholera
History, 19th Century
London
Anesthesia, Inhalation
Disease Outbreaks
United Kingdom
Epidemiology
Ether

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