General Medicine and Miscellaneous

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28 October 1837 - 3 February 1838.
Westminster Medical Society (WMS): Discussion of candles containing arsenic

10 November 1838.
WMS: Snow on rheumatism

17 November 1838.
WMS: Snow on prolapse of the walls of the vagina

24 November 1838.
WMS: Golding Bird on carbonic acid poisoning

1 December 1838.
WMS: Snow and Golding Bird on carbonic acid poisoning

15 December 1838.
WMS: Snow on morphia, Raspail, and Magendie

22 December 1838.
WMS: Snow on Dr. Reid and the glosso-pharyngeal nerve

"Action of recti muscles," London Medical Gazette 23 (12 January 1839): 559-60[ltr. to ed., 29 December 1838].

"On the bands in the recti muscles," London Medical Gazette 23 (9 February 1839): 719-20[ltr. to ed., 28 January 1839].

Presentation: 7 December 1839. "The anasarca which follows scarlatina"

Presentation: 13 March 1841. "Peculiar species of deformity of the chest and spine in children"

"Synopsis of a letter from Mr. Snow," Lancet 1 (10 April 1841): 112[ltr. to ed., April 1841].

"Uterine hæmorrhage, with retention of the placenta," London Medical Gazette 31 (11 November 1842): 224-25[ltr. to ed., 3 November 1842].

"A new kind of pessary," London Medical Gazette 32 (7 April 1843): 100[ltr. to ed.].

Presentation: 16 March 1844. "Anuerism of the aorta"

16 March 1844.
WMS: Snow on the mind of mankind

Presentation: 13 April 1844. "Hydrophobia and its prevention"

Presentation: 19 October 1844. "Fatal case of poisoning with carbonate of lead"

"Pericarditis after scarlet-fever," London Medical Gazette 35 (7 March 1845): 728-29[ltr. to ed.].

11 November 1845.
Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society (RMCS): On the minute anatomy and pathology of Bright's Disease of the kidney

"On the use of the term 'Allopathy'," Lancet 1 (21 February 1846): 229[ltr. to ed.].

12 May 1846.
RMCS: Snow critiques R. D. Thomson's paper, "On the relation between the constituents of the food and the systems of animals."

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

Presentation: 7 November 1846. "Alkalescent urine, and phosphatic urinary calculi"

"Alkalescent urine and phosphatic calculi," London Medical Gazette 38 (20 November 1846): 877-880. Read at the Westminster Medical Society on November 6, 1846.

7 December 1846.
RMCS: T. B. Curling on a "Case of fatal internal strangulation"

12 December 1846.
WMS: Mr. Marshall's clinical-pathological case presentation on "strangulation of a portion of the ileum

"Case of strangulation of the ileum in an aperture of the mesentery," London Medical Gazette 38 (18 December 1846): 1049-52. Paper read at the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 23 June 1846.

27 January 1847.
RMCS: Snow comments on a case presentation of spontaneous gangrene

10 April 1847.
WMS: Snow on Dupuytren and deformity of chest in children

4 November 1848.
WMS: Snow comments on scarlet fever

"On the treatment of inflammation of the skin," Lancet (27 April 1850): 502-03[ltr. to ed., April 1850].

"The case of fissure of the sternum," Lancet 2 (7 July 1855): 17[ltr. to ed., July 1855].

"Case of purpura hæmorrhagica," Association Medical Journal 4 (3 May 1856): 364-65[ltr. to ed., April 1856].

"On the case of congenital fissure of the sternum," Medical Times and Gazette 15 (28 November 1857): 561[ltr. to ed., 21 November 1857].

"A doctor's teetotal address delivered in 1836," British Temperance Advocate (November 1888): 182. (part 2, January 1889): 20-21.

The Case Books of Dr. John Snow—Introduction, by Richard Ellis. London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1994.

The Case Books of Dr. John Snow—The Prescription Records, by M. P. Earles, 1994.

The Case Books of Dr. John Snow—Glossary of Latin abbreviations used in the prescriptions, by M. P. Earles, 1994.

The Case Books of Dr. John Snow—17 July 1848–27 January 1849, 1994.