In a now legendary experiment in 1854, Dr. John Snow, a London physician, conducted a simple yet brilliant test that helped to settle the debate about the transmission of cholera. Snow drew a map [see ...

John Snow, Father of Epidemiology A London physician by the name of John Snow mapped out the spread of a cholera outbreak in the city 150 years ago. ... Dr. Nigel Paneth, co-author, Cholera, ...

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On June 16, 1858, the world lost a legendary medical pioneer. John Snow MD, suffered a fatal stroke while nearing completion of his book Chloroform and Other Anesthetics, which was edited and ...

Dr. John Snow and Henry Whitehead, a local priest, engaged in a data collection scheme during the height of the outbreak in an effort to prove the real cause of transmission of cholera.

Ghost Map details Snow's efforts to prove his theory that cholera was a water-borne illness. Johnson, author of the provocative Everything Bad Is Good For You, which laid a defense for video games ...

Pioneers like Dr. John Snow were using chlorine bleach to disinfect contaminated water as early as the 1850s. (Snow also invented epidemiology, discovered the cause of cholera, ...

In London, Dr John Snow studied the spread of cholera in the Broad Street area. He noticed that the victims had all drunk water from the pump in the street.