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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.
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").
- Cholera present within the pumping water.
- 616
- 1854
23 de ene. de 2018 · About The Author. In August 1854, Soho in London was struck with a severe cholera outbreak. Thousands fell ill, and at least 600 people died. But as awful as this outbreak was, it is likely that many more would have died if not for the work of a local doctor living in the area, John Snow.
25 de ago. de 2022 · When a cholera epidemic broke out in 1854, John Snow decided to investigate. His surgery was near Broad Street in central London, and hundreds of people around the area had died from...
8 de mar. de 2022 · Snow’s first significant encounter with cholera occurred in 1832. The second cholera pandemic was sweeping through England, leaving hospitals severely understaffed. Snow, then a 19-year-old apprentice, was sent to care for the workers in the mining village of Killingworth.
