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"The Case Books of Dr. John Snow—Introduction, by Richard Ellis"

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Edited by Richard H. Ellis
(1994)Snow's extant Case Books were published as Supplement 14 by the journal, Medical History.

Snow's Case Books from 17 July 1848 through 5 June 1858 are no longer available as a consolidated link to PubMed created by the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, MD. However, PubMed still offers access to digital versions of Richard Ellis's introductory essay, M. P. Earles's essay on prescription records, a glossary on prescription nomenclature, successive dates from the Case Notes, and two appendices as published in issues of Medical History Supplements, vol. 14.

I have posted PDFs of the above as successive, individual files in Snow's Works, beginning with Ellis' introduction. In addition, I scanned the indexes that appear in the print copy and posted them after the PubMed digital files.

The frontispiece photo of Snow and accompanying caption written by Ellis are not included in the PubMed files. The photograph is duplicated in the Online Companion to Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine, the caption to which reads as follows:

This photograph was one of a series entitled Literary and Scientific Portrait Club which consisted of a uniform set of portraits, assembled some time during or after 1857, of more than 1,100 eminent, literary and scientific men of the time. The terms of admission to the "club" required "each member having a photograph of himself taken by the artists of the club, Messrs. Maull and Polybank, 55 Gracechurch Street and 187a Picadilly, at the cost of 10s. 6d. including an impression of himself". (J.S. Bowerbank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, Heinz Archive and Library of the National Portrait Gallery, London, File P 106, 1–20.


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