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John Snow 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 public water pump. Snow's findings inspired fundamental changes in the water and waste s…
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science · English epidemiologist and physician (1813–1858) · physician · epidemiologist · anesthesiologist · also John Snow, Snow
Born 15 March 1813 · Died 16 June 1858 · Q356407
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York Civic Trust erected a memorial to John Snow in the form of a pump with its handle removed, a blue plaque and an interpretation board, in North Street Gardens, York, close to his birthplace
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Katherine Tansley published a fictionalised account based on Snow's activities, in her historical novel The Doctor of Broad Street (Troubadour Books)
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The Lancet printed a correction of its brief obituary of Snow, originally published in 1858: "The journal accepts that some readers may wrongly have inferred that The Lancet failed to recognise Dr Snow's remarkable achie
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The John Snow lecture theatre was opened by Anne, Princess Royal, at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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John Snow was voted by readers in the United Kingdom of 'Hospital Doctor' magazine as 'the greatest doctor of all time'
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The John Snow College was founded on the University of Durham's Queen's Campus in Stockton-on-Tees
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A public health research and consulting firm, John Snow, Inc, was founded
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Died 1858-06-16.
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Snow suffered a stroke while working in his London office on 10 June 1858.
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Snow made an early and often overlooked contribution to epidemiology in a pamphlet, On the adulteration of bread as a cause of rickets
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Incorporating the results of his investigation of the role of the water supply in the Soho epidemic of 1854
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Entitled On the Inhalation of the Vapor of Ether
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By James Young Simpson, a Scottish obstetrician
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Published a short work titled, On the Inhalation of the Vapor of Ether, which served as a guide for its use
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Became a member of York Temperance Society
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Experimented with ether to see its effects on respiration
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Wrote, On Asphyxiation, and on the Resuscitation of Still-Born Children, which is an article that discusses his discoveries on the physiology of neonatal respiration, oxygen consumption and the effects of body tempera
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Snow began working at the Westminster Hospital
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During his time as a surgeon-apothecary apprentice, he encountered a cholera epidemic for the first time in Killingworth, a coal-mining village
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In 1830, Snow became a member of the temperance movement.
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Snow became a member of the temperance movement
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When he was 14, he obtained a medical apprenticeship with William Hardcastle in the area of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Born 1813-03-15.
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