When I first heard that a new coronavirus was hurtling towards Europe, I thought about John Snow. Snow was an early anaesthetist (he administered chloroform twice to a grateful Queen Victoria during childbirth) but during the cholera outbreak of 1854, he became a kind of “disease detective”, investigating London’s slums to determine how it was spreading.
剛聽說一種新型冠狀病毒正擴散到歐洲時，我想到了約翰•斯諾(John Snow)。斯諾是一名早期的麻醉師（他在維多利亞女王(Queen Victoria)分娩時曾兩次給她使用氯仿麻醉，女王對此心存感激），但在1854年霍亂爆發期間，他成了一名「疾病偵探」，他去倫敦的貧民窟探訪，以查明這種疾病是如何傳播的。
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