Memorials to John Snow – Pioneer in anaesthesia and epidemiology

@article{Snowise2021MemorialsTJ,
  title={Memorials to John Snow – Pioneer in anaesthesia and epidemiology},
  author={Neil G Snowise},
  journal={Journal of Medical Biography},
  year={2021},
  volume={31},
  pages={47 - 50},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:233985110}
}
John Snow was an English physician and a founding father of epidemiology, whose name is inextricably linked with tracing the source of the 1854 cholera outbreak in Soho, which killed over 600 people, and also pioneered substantial achievements in the development of anaesthesia.
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