Epidemiology
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Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution, patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population, and application of this knowledge to prevent diseases.
Tree of life by Haeckel
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
Epidemiology
…trends for many diseases, new and old. He provided statistical evidence for many theories on disease, and also refuted some widespread ideas on them. John Snow is famous for his investigations into the causes of the 19th-century cholera epidemics, and is also known as the father of (modern) Epidemiology. He…
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