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When a cholera epidemic broke out in 1854, John Snow decided to investigate. His surgery was near Broad Street in central London, and hundreds of people around the area had died from cholera ...
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- Apprenticeship in Newcastle
- Medical Training
- Anaesthesia
- Research Into Causes of Cholera
- Contaminated Water Supply
- Early Death
In 1827, when John was 14 years, he was apprenticed for six years to William Hardcastle, a surgeon-apothecary at Long Benton, a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne. Hardcastle was born in York in 1794 and baptised at St John’s Church, Ousebridge which stood on the corner of North Street so he probably knew the Snows well. He had served his apprenticeship...
By October 1836 when he was 23, John had scraped together enough money to enrol at the Great Windmill Street School of Medicine in London. After six months’ surgical practice at Westminster Hospital his training was complete. He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in May 1838 and a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in the follo...
A dentist based in Gower Street, London, James Robinson (1813-62), was the first in Britain to use ether as an anaesthetic when he extracted a tooth on 19 December 1846. Very soon afterwards John began his research into ether administration and realised that an efficient inhaler to control vapour strength was fundamental to the safe administration ...
His reputation as an anaesthetist is probably overshadowed in modern times by the acknowledgement of John’s pioneering work in the field of public health and hygiene, in particular his discovery that cholera is a waterborne infection. Following an outbreak in 1849, he published a paper, On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, outlining his theory ...
John first became interested in water supplies to south London following the 1849 epidemic when he noted that cholera fatality rates were particularly high in the areas supplied by two water companies: the Lambeth Waterworks Company and the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company. In 1852 the Lambeth company moved its waterworks further up river ...
On 10 June 1858, while completing a paper On Chloroform and other Anaesthetics, John suffered a stroke. His condition deteriorated and he died, unmarried, on 16 June aged 45. His clergyman brother, William, was with him when he died at home, 18 Sackville Street, Piccadilly, London where he had lived since 1852. Post-mortem examination showed eviden...
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Discover facts about John Snow who famously identified a pump as being the source of a cholera outbreak in 1854.
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