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John Snow
Researcher at Royal College of Physicians
Publications - 36
Citations - 1730
John Snow is an academic researcher from Royal College of Physicians. The author has contributed to research in topics: Inhalation & Ether. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 36 publications receiving 1638 citations.
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On the Mode of Communication of Cholera
TL;DR: It would occupy a long time to give an account of the progress of cholera over different parts of the world, with the devastation it has caused in some places, whilst it has passed lightly over others, or left them untouched; and unless this account could be accompanied with a description of the physical condition of the places, and the habits of the people, which I am unable to give, it would be of little use.
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On chloroform and other anaesthetics
TL;DR: The case with Mr. Propert, and as there were reasons for not postponing the operation, it was determined that he should inhale the chloroform rather than be subjected to the pain.
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On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations
TL;DR: The results which the author has given go to show, that the vapor of ether, when inhaled, exerts no injurious effects over the success of surgical operations, and unquestionably shows an important fact, that out of
Cholera and the Water Supply in the South Districts of London in 1854.
TL;DR: In this paper, it was observed that cholera is spread frequently from person to person in crowded habitations of the poor, who eat, drink, cook, and sleep in the same apartment, and pay little or no regard to cleanliness, who live, in fact, under circumstances where the sudden and copious evacuations, soiling the bed and body linen, would not fail to contaminate the hands of the patient and his attendants, and be thence transferred