John Snow
1813-1858
English Physician, Epidemiologist and Anesthetist
John Snow correctly concluded that cholera was transmitted through the ingestion of contaminated water. Snow came to this conclusi...
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Snow, John British Anesthesiologist (1813–1858)
In 1854, John Snow was a well-regarded London anesthesiologist, tending to Queen Victoria, among others. He was born in 1813 of humble stock, but...
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John Snow was a British physician of the Victorian era who helped introduce the use of anesthesia in surgery; he also attempted to show, in 1854, that cholera was a water-borne disease. His careful ma...
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