John Snow: Serial Killer

There are many people in the world who claim that they have tried to take down the big evil people in the world. Whether it is the big company that uses questionable practices, big dictators with a terrible idealism, or just the towering bully down the street, people have been trying to defeat the huge people that make life worse for everyone. But, there are tinier things that have been a disability on the human race, that have killed many people throughout time and location; germs. Whether being a bacterium, virus, or protozoa, there have been fewer people that have volunteered to take down these microscopic warriors. This is because these diseases are scarier, not because of size, but of power, taking down people across race and socioeconomic

At a very young age he learned of the value of education. He made it through college, got a Doctorate of Medicine, and even qualified to join the Royal College of Surgeons. Many people know John Snow as the Father of Modern Epidemiology because of his advancements in anesthesia and his ideas over the use of anesthetics, but there is one big contribution he made in the scientific and medical realm that many overlook: his work on the fight the devil cholera. His fight saved millions of lives that many people ridiculed (causing the modern saying of “You know nothing John Snow” to come to fruition). To find the cause of cholera, John Snow was known to run around town to interview those who had family that died from cholera. He would map out the deaths and inquire about how people ate and drank, which lead him to his theory that cholera was spread through drinking water. At this point in time, people would throw their waste and feces into the water, which was then extracted to get drinking water. People who thought that cholera was spread through miasma constantly berated Snow and made getting out his findings almost impossible. Many thought his evidence was refutable and threw out all of his evidence, but Snow got his big break in the epidemic at Broad Street. Through his findings, he was able to get the medical community to look at his evidence and was the foundation of the Sanitary Movement in London. The Sanitary Movement was able