John Snow's Published Works

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"Doctor's teetotal address delivered in 1836," edited by Thomas Snow. British Temperance Advocate (November 1888): 182; (January 1889): 20-21.

"Arsenic as a preservative of dead bodies." Lancet 1 (10 November 1838): 264. [ltr. to ed., 5 November 1838]

“Action of recti muscles.” LMG 23 (12 January 1839): 559-60. [ltr. to ed., 29 December 1838]

"Mechanism of respiration." Lancet 1 (26 January 1839): 653-55. [ltr. to ed., 5 January 1839]

"On the bands in the recti muscles." LMG 23 (9 February 1839): 719-20. [ltr. to ed., 28 January 1839]

Editor refuses to publish letter from John Snow. Lancet 2 (25 May 1839): 352.

"On distortions of the chest and spine in children, from enlargement of the abdomen." LMG 28 (9 April 1841): 112-16. [paper first read at Westminster Medical Society, 13 March 1841]

"On asphyxia, and on the resuscitation of still-born children." LMG 29 (5 November 1841): 222-27. [paper first read at Westminster Medical Society, 16 October 1841]

"On paracentesis of the thorax."LMG 29 (28 January 1842): 705-07. [paper first read at Westminster Medical Society, 18 December 1841]

"Uterine hæmorrhage, with retention of the placenta. LMG 31 (11 November 1842): 224-25. [ltr. to ed., 3 November 1842]

"On the circulation in the capillary blood-vessels, and on some of its connections with pathology & therapeutics." LMG 31 (3 March 1843): 810-16. [extensive revision of two papers read at the Westminster Medical Society, 21 January and 4 February 1843]

"A new kind of pessary." LMG 32 (7 April 1843): 100. [ltr. to ed.]

"Case of acute poisoning by carbonate of lead." LMG 35 (22 November 1844): 248-50. [paper read at the Westminster Medical Society, 19 November 1844]

"Case of malignant hæmorrhagic small-pox." LMG 35 (31 January 1845): 585-86. [ltr. to ed.]

"Pericarditis after scarlet-fever." LMG 35 (7 March 1845): 728-29. [ltr. to ed.]

"On the pathological effects of atmospheres vitiated by carbonic acid gas, and by a diminution of the due proportion of oxygen." EMSJ 65 (1846): 49-56.

"On the use of the term 'Allopathy.'" Lancet 1 (21 February1846): 229. [ltr. to ed.]

"Some remarks on alkalescent urine and phosphatic calculi." LMG 38 (20 November 1846): 877-81. [paper read at the Westminster Medical Society, 7 November 1846] (link to searchable text is still pending)

"Case of strangulation of the ileum in an aperture of the mesentery." LMG 38 (18 December 1846): 1049-52. [paper read at the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 23 June 1846]

"Table of the quantity of the vapour of ether in one hundred cubic inches of air." MT 15 (23 January 1847): 325. (link to searchable text is still pending)

"Table for calculating the strength of ether vapour." LMG 39 (29 January 1847): 219-20.

“Table of the quantity of the vapour of ether in one hundred cubic inches of air.” PharJ 6 (1 February 1847): 361. (link to searchable text is still pending)

"On the inhalation of the vapour of ether." LMG 39 (19 March 1847): 498-502, (26 March 1847): 539-42.

"On the inhalation of the vapour of ether." British and Foreign Medical Review 23 (January - April 1847): 573-76. [extracts from LMG 39 (1847): 539-42.] (link to searchable text is still pending)

To the editor of the Pharmaceutical Journal." PharJ 6 (1 April 1847): 474-75. [ltr.to ed., 5 March 1847]  (link to searchable text is still pending)

"A lecture on the inhalation of vapour of ether in surgical operations." Lancet 1 (29 May 1847): 551-54.

"On deformity of the chest in children." Lancet 2 (31 July 1847): 137.

On the Inhalation of the Vapour of Ether in Surgical Operations: Containing a Description of the Various Stages of Etherization, and a Statement of the Results of Nearly Eighty Operations in Which Ether Has Been Employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals. London: Churchill, October 1847. [Preface is dated September, but LMG 40 (8 October 1847): 648 notes that a review copy was received that week; the review appeared in LMG 40 (5 November 1847): 812-14.] (link to searchable text is still pending)

"Dr. Snow on the effects of ether vapour."LMG 40 (12 November 1847): 859. [ltr. to ed., 8 November 1847]

"On the inhalation of chloroform and ether, with description of an apparatus."Lancet 1 (12 February 1848): 177-80. [ltr. to ed., January 1848]

"Remarks on the fatal case of inhalation of chloroform."LMG 41 (18 February 1848): 277-78.

"The fatal chloroform case at Newcastle."Lancet 1 (26 February 1848): 239. [ltr. to ed.]

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours."
Parts 1 - 18. LMG 41- 48 (19 May 1848 - 26 December 1851): 228-1094.

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 1. LMG 41 (19 May 1848): 850-54.

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 2. LMG 41 (26 May 1848): 893-95.

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 3. LMG 41 (23 June 1848): 1074-78.

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 4. LMG 42 (25 August 1848): 330-35.

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 5. LMG 42 (8 September 1848): 412-16.

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 6. LMG 42 (13 October 1848): 614-19.

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 7. LMG 42 (17 November 1848): 840-44.

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 8. LMG 42 (15 December 1848): 1021-25.

"On the use of chloroform in surgical operations and midwifery."LJM 1 (January 1849): 50-55.

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 9. LMG 43 (9 February 1849): 228-35.

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 10. LMG 43 (16 March 1849): 451-56.

"On the discussion respecting chloroform in the Académie de Médecine of Paris."LJM 1 (April 1849): 324-26.

"On the fatal cases of inhalation of chloroform." EMSJ 72 (1849): 75-87. [paper read at the Westminster Medical Society, 31 March 1849]   (link to searchable text is still pending)

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 11. LMG 43 (8 June 1849): 983-85.

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 12. LMG 44 (17 August 1949): 272-77.

On the Mode of Communication of Cholera. London: Churchill, September 1849. [The essay is dated 29 August 1849; a review of the published pamphlet appeared in LMG 44 (14 September 1849): 466-70.]

"The cholera at Albion Terrace."LMG 44 (21 September 1849): 504-05. [ltr. to ed., 15 September 1849]

"On the pathology and mode of communication of cholera."LMG 44 (2 November 1849): 745-52; (30 November 1849): 923-29.

"The alleged employment of chloroform by thieves."LMG 45 (26 February 1850): 327. [ltr. to ed.]

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 13. LMG 45 (12 April 1850): 622-27.

"On the treatment of inflammation of the skin."Lancet 1 (27 April 1850): 502-03. [ltr. to ed., April 1850]

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 14. LMG 46 (23 August 1850): 321-27.

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 15. LMG 46 (1 November 1850): 749-54.

"Further remarks on the employment of chloroform by thieves,"LMG 46 (15 November 1850): 834-35. [ltr. to ed.]

"Remarks on the administration of chloroform, in answer to Professor Lizars."MT 22 (31 August 1850): 228-31. [ltr. to ed., 27 August 1850]

"Dr. Snow on chloroform."MT 22 (14 December 1850): 635. [ltr to ed.]

"On the inhalation of various medicinal substances." LJM 3 (1851): 122-29.

A Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Campbell, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, on the Clause Respecting Chloroform in the Proposed Prevention of Offences Bill. London: Churchill, 1851.

"Lord Campbell's chloroform clause."MT 23 (22 March 1851): 325. [ltr. to ed.]

"Chloroform, and its use by thieves."LMG 47 (28 March 1851): 571. [ltr to ed., 21 March 1851]

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 16. LMG 47 (11 April 1851): 622-27.

"My dear Mr. Smith."LMG 48 (29 August 1851): 370. [This note from Snow, undated, was imbedded in a letter to the editor written by Henry Smith, FRCS]

"Dear Mr. Hewett."Medico-Chirurgical Transactions 34 (1851): 51-52. [ltr. from 18 May 1848] (link to searchable text is still pending)

"On the mode of propagation of cholera."MT 24 (29 November 1851): 559-62; (13 December 1851): 610-12.

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 17. LMG 48 (19 December 1851): 1053-57.

"On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours." Part 18. LMG 48 (26 December 1851): 1090-94.

"On the administration of chloroform in the public hospitals."MTG 4 (3 April 1852): 349-50. [ltr. to ed.]

"On the cause and prevention of death from chloroform."LJM 4 (April 1852):320-29; (May 1852): 415-23; (June 1852): 564-72.

"Deaths from chloroform in Scotland."MTG 4 (12 June 1852): 598-99. [ltr. to ed.]

"Death from chloroform in a case of fatty degeneration of the heart."MTG 5 (9 October 1852): 361-62.

On Continuous Molecular Changes, More Particularly in Their Relation to Epidemic Diseases. London: Churchill, 1853. Reprint, Snow on Cholera, edited by Wade Hampton Frost, 145-75. New York: Hafner, 1965.

"On the administration of chloroform during parturition."AMJ 1 (10 June 1853): 500-02.

"On the comparative mortality of large towns and rural districts, and the causes by which it is influenced." Transactions of the Epidemiological Society. In JPH & SR 1 (1855): 16-24. Paper delivered in May 1853.

"On the prevention of cholera."MTG 7 (8 October 1853): 367-69. Reprint, London: William Tyler, 1853.

"The late deaths from chloroform."MTG 7 (5 November 1853): 485-86. [ltr. to ed., 31 October 1853]

"The water supply at Newcastle." Times, 11 November 1853. [ltr. to ed.]

"The principles on which the treatment of cholera should be based."MTG 8 (25 February 1854): 180-82.

"On the recent death at St. George's Hospital, while the patient was beginning to inhale chloroform."MTG 8 (10 June 1854): 606. [ltr. to ed., 29 May 1854]

"Cholera in the Baltic Fleet." MTG 9 (12 August 1854): 170. [ltr. to ed., 5 August 1854]

"Communication of cholera by Thames water."MTG 9 (2 September 1854): 247-48. [ltr. to ed., August 1854]

"The cholera near Golden-square, and at Deptford."MTG 9 (23 September 1854): 321-22. [ltr. to ed., September 1854]

"On the communication of cholera by impure Thames water."MTG 9 (7 October 1854): 365-66. [ltr. To ed., 2 October

"Chloroform in London and Edinburgh."Lancet 1 (27 January 1855): 108-09. [ltr. to ed., January 1855]

"The breathing and the pulse under the influence of chloroform. AMJ 3 (6 April 1855): 313-18.

On the Mode of Communication of Cholera. 2nd ed. London: Churchill, 1855.

"On the chief cause of the recent sickness and mortality in the Crimea."MTG 10 (12 May 1855): 457-58. [ltr. to ed., April 1855]

"The case of fissure of the sternum."Lancet 2 (7 July 1855): 17. [ltr. to ed., July 1855]

"Further remarks on the mode of communication of cholera; including some comments on the recent reports on cholera by the General Board of Health."MTG 11 (14 July 1855): 31-35, 84-88.

"Dr. Snow's report." In Report on the Cholera Outbreak in the Parish of St. James, Westminster during the Autumn of 1854, by the Cholera Inquiry Committee, 97-120. London: Churchill, 1855.

"On the employment of chloroform in surgical operations."Lancet 2 (20 October 1855): 361-63; (27 October 1855): 383-85.

"On the mode of communication of cholera." Edinburgh Medical Journal 1 (January 1856): 668-70. [abbreviated ltr. to ed., 14 December 1855]

"The mode of propagation of cholera."Lancet 1 (16 February 1856): 184. [ltr. to ed., [February 1856]

"Further remarks on the cause and prevention of death from chloroform." Lancet 1 (9 February 1856): 148-50.

"The mode of propagation of cholera." Lancet 1 (1856): 184. [ltr. to ed., [16 February 1856]

"Cholera and the water supply." Times, 26 June 1856. [ltr. to ed.]

"Cholera and the water supply in the south districts of London in 1854." JPH & SR 2 (1856): 239-57.

"Administration of chloroform."MTG 13 (5 July 1856): 21. [ltr to ed., July 1856]

"Case of purpura hæmorrhagica." AMJ 4 (1856): 364-65.

"On the supposed influence of offensive trades on mortality."Lancet 2 (26 July 1856): 95-97.

"On the vapour of amylene."MTG 14 (17 January 1857): 60-62; (24 January 1857): 82-84.

"On the recent accident from chloroform." MTG 14 (21 March 1857): 282-83.

"Further remarks on amylene."MTG 14 (4 April 1857): 332-34; (11 April 1857): 357-59; (18 April 1857): 379-82.

"Dr. Marshall Hall's method of artificial respiration." MTG 14 (25 April 1857): 421. [ltr to ed., April 1857]

"On some alleged ill effects of amylene."BMJ 1 (2 May 1857): 381. [ltr. to ed., April 1857]

"On chloride of amyle."MTG 14 (9 May 1857): 457. [ltr. to ed., 4 May 1857]

"On the adulteration of bread as a cause of rickets." Lancet 2 (4 July 1857): 4-5.

"Mr. A. Prichard on amylene."BMJ 2 (1 August 1857): 654. [ltr. to ed., 25 July 1857]

"Case of death from amylene." MTG 15 (8 August 1857): 133-34. [ltr. to ed., 1 August]

"On the adulteration of bread as a cause of rickets."Lancet 2 (3 October 1857): 351-52. [ltr. to ed., 24 September 1857]

"Cholera, and the water supply in the south districts of London."BMJ 2 (17 October 1857): 864-65. [ltr. to ed., October 1857]

On the outbreak of cholera at Abbey-Row, West Ham.MTG 15 (24 October 1857): 417-19.

"On the origin of the recent outbreak of cholera at West Ham."BMJ 2 (7 November 1857): 934-35. [ltr. to ed., 31 October 1857]

"On the case of congenital fissure of the sternum."MTG 15 (28 November 1857): 561. [ltr. to ed., 21 November 1857]

"Drainage and water supply in connexion with the public health."MTG 16 (13 February 1858): 161-63; (20 February 1858): 188-91.

"The recent death from chloroform at Bristol."BMJ 1 (20 March 1858): 223-25. [ltr. to ed., 13 March 1858]

"Death from chloroform." BMJ 1 (3 April 1858): 279. [ltr. to ed., 27 March 1858]

On Chloroform and Other Anæsthetics. Edited by Benjamin Ward Richardson. London: Churchill, 1858.

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