The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new
interpretations of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography …

Figure 1 widely shared in the medical and related professions, and a variety of non-
contagious aetiologies—generally glossed as 'miasma theories'—were advanced. 13, 26 …

The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between
modern medicine and earlier practices. This book uses new information from John Snow's …

The medical careers of well established nineteenthcentury London doctors have been given
much attention by historians and biographers'. Far less attention has been paid, however, to …

(1)). Thus, in searching for missing forefathers, modern epidemiologists keep looking for
historical heroes who once did what we would like to think we would do now. John Snow …

John Snow's work in the specialties of anaesthesia and epidemiology has been well
documented, and current interest in his medical practice and research is strong'. Despite …

On 1 December 1846, William Cowen, a 23-year-old stout and healthy-looking groom was
admitted into St George's Hospital, London, having been thrown with great violence from a …

This essay presents a pharmacologist's perspective of what would be now called 'preclinical
research'and 'uncontrolled clinical trials' surrounding the first public demonstration by …

There is no one in American public health more qualified to write this textbook of public
health practice than Dr. Bernard Turnock. He served as a distinguished commissioner of the …