{"id":1986,"date":"2009-02-06T15:17:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T13:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2009-02-22T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T09:38:00","slug":"john-snow-cure-of-cholera-and-foundation-of-epidemiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/02\/john-snow-cure-of-cholera-and-foundation-of-epidemiology\/","title":{"rendered":"John Snow, cure of cholera and foundation of epidemiology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The non-epidemiologist will find the story about John Snow, cholera, and the removed pump handle at Wikipedia or at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ph.ucla.edu\/epi\/snow\/phototour3.html\">UCLA<\/a> site.<br \/>\nDuring my visit last week in London, Broadwick (former Broad) Street was under reconstruction &#8211; just in line with the old maps of waste water drainage.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dsc_3265.png\" alt=\"dsc_3265\" title=\"dsc_3265\" width=\"450\" height=\"543\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1984\" \/><!--more--><br \/>\nThe open pavement extends to the original pump site in front of the John Snow Pub. And here is the famous pump:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dsc_3257dxo-3.png\" alt=\"dsc_3257dxo-3\" title=\"dsc_3257dxo-3\" width=\"451\" height=\"650\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1994\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Addendum<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19228682?ordinalpos=6&#038;itool=Email.EmailReport.Pubmed_ReportSelector.Pubmed_RVDocSum\">most recent findings<\/a> about the premature death of John Snow<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Based on current evidence of renal toxicity associated with exposure to anesthetic agents, it is perhaps more likely that extensive and prolonged self-experimentation with anesthetics over a 9-year period led to Snow&#8217;s renal failure, swollen fingers, and early death from stroke.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 28.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The non-epidemiologist will find the story about John Snow, cholera, and the removed pump handle at Wikipedia or at the UCLA site. During my visit last week in London, Broadwick (former Broad) Street was under reconstruction &#8211; just in line with the old maps of waste water drainage. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 28.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2354,2353,2352,2351,2350],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-broad-street","tag-epidemiologist","tag-john-snow","tag-pump-handle","tag-water-drainage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}