John Snow

Standard Name: Snow, John

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
Doctor John Snow administered the drug. The British Medical Journal was not convinced that Queen Victoria had in fact used chloroform and maintained that this was merely a rumour.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Timeline

13 February 1832: Cholera was registered as epidemic in London...

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13 February 1832

Cholera was registered as epidemic in London (a couple of months after Joanna Baillie recorded anxiety about it). This was the first of four major outbreaks in nineteenth-century Britain.
Alderman, Geoffrey. Modern Britain 1700-1983: A Domestic History. Croom Helm, 1986.
103-5
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
257, 270, 274
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
183, 196
Dingwall, Robert et al. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing. Routledge, 1988.
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1848: A cholera outbreak occurred in the UK; during...

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1848

A cholera outbreak occurred in the UK; during this epidemic Dr John Snow mapped death rates in London street by street and traced the cause to the water supply.
Dingwall, Robert et al. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing. Routledge, 1988.
26
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
73

7 September 1854: Putting his theories into practice, Dr John...

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7 September 1854

Putting his theories into practice, Dr John Snow contained an outbreak of cholera in Soho, London, by effectively stopping the main water supply.
Duin, Nancy, and Jenny Sutcliffe. A History of Medicine: From Prehistory to the Year 2020. Simon and Schuster, 1992.
58-9
Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
79
Youngson, A. J. The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine. Holmes and Meier, 1979.
76-7
Shryock, Richard Harrison. The Development of Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved. University of Wisconsin Press, 1979.
292

11 August 1875: The Sale of Food and Drugs Act drastically...

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11 August 1875

The Sale of Food and Drugs Act drastically reduced the adulteration of common foods.
Smith, Francis Barrymore. The People’s Health, 1830-1910. Croom Helm, 1979.
208, 210
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

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