biography
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| lived:
| (1813–58)
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| biography:
| Anaesthetist and epidemiologist, born in York, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. From 1836 he practised medicine in London, and during the cholera outbreaks of 1848 and 1854 carried out epidemiological investigations, tracing one local outbreak to a well in Soho (the Broad Street pump) into which raw sewage seeped. He also implicated the Thames, into which many of London's sewers drained, and from which much of London's domestic water was obtained. Also a pioneer anaesthetist, he did experimental work on ether and chloroform, and devised apparatus to administer anaesthetics. As physician to Queen Victoria in 1853, he administered chloroform to her during the birth of Prince Leopold. |
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