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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 ...
- 16 June 1858 (aged 45), London, England
- 15 March 1813, York, England
1 de may. de 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
30 de mar. de 2018 · John Snow conducted pioneering investigations on cholera epidemics in England and particularly in London in 1854 in which he demonstrated that contaminated water was the key source of the epidemics.
- Theodore H. Tulchinsky
- 10.1016/B978-0-12-804571-8.00017-2
- 2018
- Case Studies in Public Health. 2018 : 77-99.
8 de mar. de 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. byMiriam Reid. A cholera victim exhibiting the bluish pallor characteristic of the disease. Illustration by John William Gear, 1832. Wellcome Collection.
23 de ene. de 2018 · Jan 23, 2018 | 1 |. In August 1854, Soho in London was struck with a severe cholera outbreak. Cholera is a gastrointestinal infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It is still prevalent in areas with inadequate sanitation and poor food and water hygiene and remains a major global public health problem today.
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").
18 de ago. de 2010 · 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...
