John snow biography book

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This website features writings by John Snow and his Victorian London contemporaries about the early years of inhalation anesthesia and two mid–nineteenth century cholera epidemics.

"Snow's Works" is an online archive of transcriptions and PDFs of Snow's published writings—most of which appeared in medical journals—as well as a selection of his presentations and comments at medical society meetings between and his death in Additional documents and images about his life and work are posted in "About John Snow."

"Snow's Contemporaries" offers a selection of writings by others on anesthesia, epidemiology, and public health.

The subsection, ether chronicles, contains medical journal entries on initial English experimentation with painless surgery, primarily from

Scholarly articles on Snow, Snow's contemporaries, and various complementary topics appear in the section on "Interpretive Studies." There are only a few book reviews and extracts posted in "Additional Bibliog