the mode of transmission of epidemic cholera." In 2016, Katherine Tansley published a fictionalised account based on Snow's activities, in her historical novel The Doctor of Broad Street (Troubadour Books). In 2017 York Civic Trust erected a memorial to John Snow in the form of a pump with its handle removed, a blue plaque and an interpretation board, in North Street Gardens, York, close to his birthplace. The 2019 TV series Victoria in the third-season episode "Foreign Bodies", John Snow meets Queen Victoria (no date mentioned but this happened in 1854) and, with the Queen's help, has the local authorities remove the Broad Street pump handle. (They did not mention his 1853 use of chloroform on the Queen for childbirth.) See also William Budd, recognized that cholera was contagious The Ghost Map, book on cholera epidemiology Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing Filippo Pacini, isolated cholera Joseph Bazalgette, sewer engineer for London References Sources Hempel, Sandra (2006). The Medical Detective: John Snow, Cholera, and the Mystery of the Broad Street Pump. Granta Books. Johnson, Steven (2006). The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World. Riverhead Books. Körner, T. W. (1996). The Pleasures of Counting, chapter 1. Cambridge University Press. Morris, Robert D. (2007). The Blue Death. Harper Collins. Shapin, Steven (6 November 2006) [Electronic version]. "". The New Yorker. Retrieved 10 November 2006 Tufte, Edward (1997). Visual Explanations, chapter 2. Graphics Press. Further reading External links "On the Mode of Communication of Cholera" by John Snow, M.D. (1st ed., 1849) "On the Mode of Communication of Cholera" by John Snow, M.D. ("2nd edition, much enlarged", includes cholera map opposite p. 45) Short narrative film about John Snow UCLA site devoted to the life of John Snow Myth and reality regarding the Broad Street pump John Snow Society Source for Snow's letter to the Editor of the Medical Times and Gazette Interactive versions of the John Snow's Map of Board Street Cholera Outbreak umapper arcgis John Snow’s cholera analysis data in modern GIS formats PredictionX: John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854 (a Harvard/edX MOOC) The John Snow Archive and Research Companion Public health in the United Kingdom 1813 births 1858 deaths English anaesthetists Burials at Brompton Cemetery Cholera 19th-century English medical doctors Alumni of the University of London Alumni of Westminster Hospital Medical School English temperance