June 16


  • 1858 - John Snow died today was a British physician is considered to be one of the fathers of epidemiology, because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, England, in 1854.
  • 1878 - Crawford Long, an American physician and pharmacist best known for his early use of diethyl ether as an anesthetic, died on this day.
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