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The accomplishments of John Snow (1813-1858), physician-epidemiologist, inventor and anaesthetist to Queen Victoria, are well documented, but the causes of his untimely death at age 45 remain ...

Snow's map led him to the source of a London cholera outbreak in 1854 Image: Wikimedia Commons I started reading about cholera over the weekend after hearing that health officials had confirmed ...

John Snow is often called the founder of epidemiology, the study of health in populations. He is best known for his work on tracking the spread of cholera during an epidemic in London in 1854. It was ...