English epidemiologist and physician (1813–1858)

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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.

John Snow, M.D. : a representative of medical science and art of the Victorian era / [Benjamin Ward Richardson].

Cholera, chloroform, and the science of medicine : a life of John Snow / Peter Vinten-Johansen [and others].

On chloroform and other anaesthetics : their action and administration / by John Snow ; edited, with a memoir of the author, by Benjamin W. Richardson.

The ghost of Broadwick Street.

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 chloroform and other anaesthetics : their action and administration / by John Snow ; edited, with a memoir of the Author, by Benjamin W. Richardson.

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

A lecture on the inhalation of vapour of ether in surgical operations / John Snow.

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

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.

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John Snow

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Images by John Snow

Images featuring John Snow

Works from the collections

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

A lecture on the inhalation of vapour of ether in surgical operations / John Snow.

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

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.

On chloroform and other anaesthetics : their action and administration / by John Snow ; edited, with a memoir of the author, by Benjamin W. Richardson.

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John Snow

Images from the collections

Images by John Snow

Images featuring John Snow

Works from the collections

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

A lecture on the inhalation of vapour of ether in surgical operations / John Snow.

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

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.

On chloroform and other anaesthetics : their action and administration / by John Snow ; edited, with a memoir of the author, by Benjamin W. Richardson.

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