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John Snow's Papers and Other Formal Presentations at Medical Society Meetings

Items on this portion of the Web site include papers that Snow read, as well as formal presentations such as clinical-pathological case-notes, previews of forthcoming papers, and descriptions of apparatus. In short, this list, sorted chronologically, includes anything that Snow was recorded as saying at medical society meetings except comments he made in response to other speakers. Click on the date for searchable text.

23 June 1846
"Case of strangulation of the ileum in an aperture in the mesentery"

7 November 1846
"Alkalescent urine, and phosphatic urinary calculi"

16 January 1847
"Snow's first published comments on inhalation of ether "

23 January 1847
"Snow demonstrates his new inhaler (Mark I)"

13 October 1849
"WMS: Snow reads a paper, "On the pathology and mode of communication of cholera""

20 October 1849
"WMS: Continuation of the discussion of Snow's paper on cholera from the previous week"

4 December 1854
"Snow exhibits map and table depicting the previous cholera outbreak in Golden-square"

17 October 1857
"Snow presents paper on the outbreak of cholera at Abbey-Row, West Ham"

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