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Arch Dis Child 89:147
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John Snow’s theory of rickets

John Snow was born in 1813, the son of a labourer in Yorkshire. He was responsible for one of the most celebrated acts in medical history when, on 2 September 1854 he cut short an outbreak of cholera in London by getting the handle of the Bond Street pump disconnected. He was also a pioneer in the development of anaesthesia. It is less well known that in 1857, less than a year before …

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