SNOW, John (1813 – 1858)

1847

#5658

On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations.

Includes an account of Snow’s regulating inhaler, the first to control the amount of ether vapor by the patient. This pamphlet, which appeared in October 1847, was the second treatise on ether anesthesia, after Robins…

1847

#12954

On the inhalation of the vapour of ether.

Appearing in March, 1847, this was Snow's first publication on anesthesia. It contains the first description and illustration of his regulating inhaler, the first such device to control the amount of ether vapor recei…

1848

#5663

On the inhalation of chloroform and ether. With description of an apparatus.

Snow’s chloroform inhaler.

1849

#5106

On the pathology and mode of communication of the cholera.

Snow first became interested in cholera at Newcastle-on-Tyne during the epidemic of 1831-1832, and recurrent outbreaks of the disease gave him the opportunity to investigate it in detail. His paper on cholera, publish…

1849

#9981

On the mode of communication of cholera.

Publication of Snow's 31-page pamphlet on cholera preceded his paper in the London Medical Gazette by about one month.

1850

#5665

On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours.

Snow attempted carbon dioxide absorption.

1855

#9982

On the mode of communication of the cholera. Second edition, much enlarged.

The second edition of Snow's book on cholera, with 162pp. compared to 31pp. in the first edition, incorporated the results of five more years of research, and contained so much additional material that it was essentia…

1858

#5666

On chloroform and other anaesthetics: Their action and administration. Edited, with a memoir of the author, by Benjamin W. Richardson.

Snow, the first specialist in anesthesiology, delivered Queen Victoria with the aid of chloroform in 1853 and 1857. This work was edited for publication after Snow's premature death by Richardson, who included a biogr…

1994

#9860

The case books of Dr. John Snow. Edited by Richard H. Ellis.