Remenbering Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), epidemiology. This is a restored Victorian iron hand pump similar to the one from which John Snow removed the handle to prove his theory on the spread of cholera.

Rob Wright

March 16, 2021

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John Snow - a physician, a pioneer in the fields of anaesthesia and epidemiology, famed for his tracing of the source of a cholera outbreak that led to improvements in preventing the spread of the disease.

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