Unit1GreatscientistsJohnSnow课件（新人教版必修5）.ppt

John Snow;John Snow; His father worked as a laborer. While poor, his parents were determined to give their children whatever educational opportunities they could afford. He was educated at a private school in his native city until the age of fourteen, when he was apprenticed(当学徒) to William Hardcastle, a surgeon(外科医生) living at Newcastle-on-Tyne.;After serving for a short time as a surgeon and unqualified assistant during the cholera epidemic of 1831-1982, he became in October 1836 a student at the Hunterian School of medicine in Great Windmill Street, London. He began to attend the medical practice at the Westminster Hospital in the following October.;;He designed a chloroform inhaler(氯仿吸入器), described in his book, On Chloroform and other Anesthetics, published in 1858.