John Snow
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- John Snow
- Background
- British physician
- Considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology
- Born 15th March 1813
- Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1838 and the Royal College of Physicians in 1850
- Died 16th June 1858
- Apprenticed to a surgeon at 14
- Cholera epidemic of 1854
- Didn't accept the theory that miasma spread disease
- Published his ideas in an essay 'On the Mode of Communication of Cholera' in 1849
- Plotted cases of cholera on a map of Soho, identifying the Broad Street pump as the source of the disease
- His 'germ' theory was not widely accepted until the 1860s
- Anaesthetics
- Tested the effects of controlled doses of ether and chloroform
- Made them safer and more effective
- Background
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