Early life and education[edit] Snow was born 15 March 1813 in York, England. He was the first of nine children born to William and Frances Snow in their North Street home. His neighbourhood was one of the poorest in the city and was always in danger of flooding because of its proximity...
John Snow was an English physician known for his seminal studies of cholera and widely viewed as the father of contemporary epidemiology. His best-known studies include his investigation of London’s Broad Street pump outbreak, which occurred in 1854, an
in1854.EarlylifeandeducationSnowwasborn15March1813inYork,England.HewasthefirstofninechildrenborntoWilliamandFrancesSnowintheirNorthStreethome.HisneighbourhoodwasoneofthepoorestinthecityandwasalwaysindangeroffloodingbecauseofitsproximitytotheRiverOuse.Hisfatherworkedinthelocalcoalyards,whichwereconstantlyreplenished...
Early life and work Schlesinger’s father was a pediatrician, and both of his parents were accomplished musicians who encouraged his interest in the arts. He received a homemovie cameraas a gift at age 11, and, while serving in the Royal Engineers duringWorld War II, he made films on the...
Snow was also a pioneer in the use of anaesthetics, carrying out research on ether and chloroform early in his medical career. He even administered chloroform to Queen Victoria during the birth of two of her children. Advertisement He died of a stroke aged just 45, and his ideas about the...
John Snow was a famous doctor in London-so___,indeed,that he___Queen Victoria as her personal physician. But he became___when he thought about helping ordinary people___to cholera.This was the deadly disease of its day.Neither its cause nor its___was understood.So many thousands of te...
1.John Snow (怀疑)___ that the second theory was correct but he needed evidence. 2.It seemed that the water was to (责备)___. 3.For (便利)___ the city London is divided roughly into three zones. 4.St Paul’s Cathedral looked (壮丽的)___ ...
约翰·拜厄姆·利斯顿·肖(1872年11月13日- 1919年1月26日),俗称拜厄姆肖,是一个英国画家,插画家,设计师和教师。 约翰·利斯顿拜厄姆肖萧约翰和他的妻子索菲亚艾丽西亚Byam Gunthorpe的儿子。1899年拜厄姆肖结婚的艺人伊夫林卡罗琳尤尼斯派克-诺特,后来被称为伊夫林CE肖(1870至1959年)。
Cholera, Chloroform and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow: Peter Vinten-Johansen, Howard Brody, Nigel Paneth, Stephen Rachkman, Michael Rip (with David Zuck); New York, Oxford University Press, 2003, 437 pages, $49.95, ISBN 0 195 13544...
It modifies the conventional rags to riches portrait of John Snow by synthesizing freshinformation about his early life from archival research and recent studies. It explores the intellectual roots of his commitments to vegetarianism, temperance, and pure drinking water, first developed when he was ...