Anaesthesia history - making connections
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There are a number of website dedicated to individual anaesthetists.

Probably the best known anaesthetist is John Snow, a London based physician who was one of the first people to take up anaesthesia as a full-time profession; he was also a prominent epidemiologist and famous for proving that cholera was transmitted by water. 



The John Snow society has a website which can be found here

The John Snow Archive and Research Companion has much useful information and links to many other sites

Joseph Clover, a contemporary of John Snow's has a website which can be found here 


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