Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow

In the year that John Snow was voted the greatest doctor ofall time in one medical publication, and which also sees the150th anniversary of his first administration of chloroformto Queen Victoria, the appearance of this life is well timed.The authors are three epidemiologists and two historians fromMichigan State University. Their original intention was to featurethe public health aspect of Snow’s work, concentratingon the Golden Square cholera epidemic of 1854, which includesthe well-known story of the Broad