1846–1860 cholera pandemic
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The third cholera pandemic was the third major outbreak of cholera originating in India in the 19th century that reached far beyond its borders, which researchers at University of California, Los Ange
Pavel Fedotov's painting shows a death from cholera in the mid-19th century.
Catholic procession at Notre Dame de La Garde, France, September 1849, during the cholera epidemic
John Snow
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John Snow was an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology and early germ theory, in part becaus
1846–1860 cholera pandemic
…Europe, Africa and North America. In 1854, which was considered the worst year, 23,000 people died in Great Britain. That year, the British physician John Snow, who was working in a poor area of London, identified contaminated water as the means of transmission of the disease. After the 1854 Broad Street cholera…
Snow in 1856
All Saints' Church, North Street, York, where Snow was baptised
Portrait of John Snow by Thomas Jones Barker (detail), 1847, private collection
John Snow memorial and public house on Broadwick Street, Soho