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Gllrgor (ffeithnd Club), ,1E60, p. 92, -and terr,' 1769. 9. ' A .View of the Silver Coin epp.l Trairectious of tbe Olargor Artbeologi' of . . . Scotlend,' 1774. 10. 'Thirty-thrce cil-society, uev rer. rol. ii. pt. iii. n.jlhl. Platas of English Medsls,' 1776. a. [Snellingrr Wortr.'l W. W. gNrx.r.niro, TEoMAS (1712-1778), SNETZIJEB, JOIIN or JOHAf'TN numisnstiet, born in l7lzr'carried ou (U10 ?-f774 P), orgen-buililer, was boru businesE as i coindealen and bookesller at obout l7l0 et Passsu in Germeny, whert No. 163 Fleet Street, nert the llorn Tavern some of hie work as orcsn-builtlei is still ( now And€rton'e Hotel). Ifis nsme often stonding. H.e aettled in"Englantl when the d.cors as a purcheser af Lonilon coin-salee trode wae in tbe hands of Byfielil, Jordant about US6. anil f,mong hie numismctic cus- enil Britlgeor sepsrats firms ecting in prqc- tonen wa.r'Willia,m lfunter tho anatomist'. tical partnerE[ip (Bunxrr, iii. 438-4f). Snellina wrote end publishsd many treatises Snetzlifg orqsn buiit in lTtrifor the church on Briiish coine, ieritorioue pioductions of Lynn R.frr, Norfolk, gained him greot for their time. 'i'he plates of his of (spscilfication 'View r€pute -.Elis in Gnbvn'a Dhtiorury, the Silver Coin . . . of Englcnd' anr rather ii.-697).- organe for Halifar (1706) and coerselv etecuted, but Ilawkine (,Siluer St. Mertin's, Le-iceoter (L774), wert excel- Cor'ru)'oreises their for tbeir fitlelit'y. On lently built, while tbet aupplied to Sir John the iitte.pages and plates of his books Danierg si Swithland ;'es tlescribeil by Snellinc iai wont to ins€rt the cdvertiso- yeara "t Glardiner, thirty afterwards, as 8 slpcr- nent : Who buye end sells all eotts bf men of Snetzkir'i grert talents.' Sotuited coinr aud medale.r IIe dieil on 2 Mav 1778, witb damp and covered with dust, it was end his mn. Thonas Snellinf, carried on playable (Mwio printe€ller atitl in tune and condition bueiness as' a it 163 Fl'eet ard Frienih, i. 168). Eeving eaved eufrcient published posthumously Street. and two of Bonoy, he returned to bis nativo country; hig father'e iorke. SnellinCs co'rni, nedals, .but, altor being longaccustomed to Lon- Lang- 'eo and antiques were oold by- auction ot don porter anil Englisf, farer'he founil Ger- ford's. Cbvent Garden, 2I-2+ Jon. 1774 maniunoundings u"ncongeuial, antl returned (tHdd Scle Catslocue in Medal Room, Brit. I.,ondon. Letters of neturalisstion were qiere to iI*.t The coine Drincipallv Glreek anil gnnted him on 12 April l77O (Eonu Ofw Romin, but none of the lofs fitcheil bigh Papera, p. IIe ilieil after 1773, in '",i*rt l0l). *di"U t e ictA erecutor to hig friend are threo Dortrrit meilalr of Snel- Burkat'Shurli the elder"s (Gnovu, iii. 4EO). "fff; by Cl. Rrwle, linc iu the Britict'Muaeun, p. Mag. end Kirh (Dunrxu, Mefuilhs et [Millerb Eiet. of Doneast r, 162; Gant. L.?inso, 1813, i. 3ji6 authoritios citod.l L U. M. JctaneH llumimatei. p. 190). A portrait ; of hio vss drown nnd engriveil b] John SNOW JOHII G 818-1868), onesthetist, Thane. l7?O anil Williem Taggie mode a the eldeet mn of s former, wae bom of fork medeliion of him (Gner, Tauic, p. 147). on 16 March 1818. He iaa educst€d ot e Tbere is slso a d'etlallion in tbe Toseio private echool in bis native citv until tho rerie,s (r0.) of hia doughter, Mies Snelling. ige of fourteen, when he was apfrrenticed to Snellinc's works -ot€ as follows: l. Wiltirm Hardcastle, a turgeon living at Newcnstleon-Tyne. During hir rpprtntice- 'Seventy-iwo Pletes of Clolil and Silver Coin. m-ostly Engliah,' 1767, fito. Henfrey ehio he became a vocetsrisn aud totol eb- (Num. Chin. tBZl, bp. f 69 f.) has shown etriner. After serviig for a ehort time as iUat theee were piriUotty p{ntetl from a colliery rurgeon ond unqualifed aeaiatantt cooperolates. engrav:ed for Sif Jarnee Har- rluring the c[olere epidemic of l83l-2' he ;fftoi nnd'the-committee of the mint in becamle in October 1-836 e atudent at thc 165i. 2. View of tbe SilrerCoin . . . of Ilunterien achool of medicine in Great\Yiud- 'A Ee begJan to atteuil Dnctsrd.' l?62. 8. ' A View of the Glolil mill Street, London. Cofn . .. of Enrlend,' l76il. 4. 'A View the mdical nractice at the- Westminrter of the C;onper doin . . . of Englond,' 1700 Hospitsl in tie following October, anil iu (incluiles if,e traileemen'a tokens). 6. 'Tbe Octdber 1838 he became-8 licentiate of ths boctrine of Cloltl and Silver Couputationa,' Societv of Apothecariee. havins been rd- 1766. 0. . A Supplement to Mi. Simon's mitted o mem\Br of the' Royal" L'ollege of Essev on frisb do'ins,' 1707. 7. 'Ifiscel- Surgeone of Englrnil on 2 Ilfay l8$8. He landus Viewe of the Coiue struck by Eug- qraduated llf.D. of the univeraity of Lonilon lieh Princes in Fronce,'&c., 1709 (includes 6n 20 Dec. 184{, and in lSiO-be was cd- ." of counterfeit slerlingr, ond of mitted c licentiato of the Royal College of Enslish"""o""t coloniol and pottern coina). 8. 'A Phvsicians. Viiw of the Origin. .-. of Jettona or Coun- IIe attsnaled with geot regularity the

/'\ g n,Lrlr,zrrr *r L}{-XXf $il TJ .ai ^t Snow zo8 Snow 'Weatminet€r meetinga of the Medicol SNOW' WTLLTAM PARKER (r8r7- Sociotn whert on 16 Oct. l&ll he red a 1895), nariner, explorur, aud author, ion of prper on 'Arph;rrie and on the Resuscite- a lieutenant in the navy who had irved at tion of New-bora Cbililren.' In 1862 the Trsfalcar and tbmucb fhe war. wae bom at aociet y, which afterwatds becsme tho Meilical Poole 6n 27 Nov. 18-17. Hig fither died in Society of London, select€d him orator for 1826,lesvins the fgmily ill uovided for : buc the eneuing year, and on l0 Mmch 1866 he the 6oy waiadmitted-to tfe hospital adUoof was induct€d into tbe nresident'e choir. Ee at Greenwich, and four yeara alEr wes seug acted for a ehort time'as locturer on forensic as rpprentice in a small brig bounil to Cal- meiliciae a! the Alilergeote Street achool of cutte. The harilsbips and cf,uel ucace guffercd medicine, atr oppoinfient wbich lopeed in r second voyage- sickened hirn ;f the sea, when the echool came to ou end in 1849. and at the qge of airteen he mede up his To Snoda acientiffc insight was due the mind to emigrrte to C"nsda; tbe pr6ject, theory thst cholers ig cor"municatecl by howeyer, feUlhrougb, ond he was obfic,fi to msars of a contaninated water-supply, and ship on bogrd a bar} bounal to Australia. At his essav uDon the mode of communlcatiou of S.yfney-hg got e_mployment in a ahop, but, choleraiwf,ich was firet publiehed in 1849, tiring of that anil getting into bad coiiany, wag awsrded by the fnetitute of France a fled into the bush; wbefr for eome tiie lie prize of 1.200r. Iu 1866 a s€cond edition led e wild, if not crimincl life. Ife et leryth fuaa nubliihed. with o much more elaborate resched Syilneyin extreme want,and by g;od invosligation oithe effect of the weter+upply fortune got a bertb on board a ehio traili;'c to on certain digtricts of Soutb London in the ielaide, in which, after some'erperie"nce the epidemic of 1864. Meanwhile, in 1840, lrnotrg tho_ uotivee, then but little-knowq SnoCs attention was arreet€d by the propeF he returncd to England in 1836. Hismother ties of ether, then newly adopteil in America was derd, his fauilv and friends diapers€d. as an snesthetising agont. He made greot Ee fell again into bid company, loettll hir imorovemente in tho metbod of administer- mon€yr and entered on Soaiil e ehip of ioli tU. druc, and then obtained permieEion Ter. Tbo leatrrint waa irteome. and he to- ilemons#te his lesults in t'he dental ileaerted; bewas arreeted, sont on lrcsrd, end out-patient room at St. Gleorge'a Eoepitel. punished. Ther€ oroved to be ao aatisfactory that he After o yeat'a eervioo or the cuast of won tb'e confidence of Robert Lisfi,n [q.v.], Africo he obtained hir diacharg+-in reward, and thur the ether practico in Loudod iame it ia naid, for hia gaUantry in jumping over- clnost entirely into'his hande. But though board to 6ay€ & man from a ehark. Ee hed he haal oracti-callv introducerl the scientiftc alwayc had an iuclinatiou to the Deu, rnd use of etler into fngfiEh EurgerJr, Snow had on hie returo to Enrland,with somdDsi auil ao well belanced a mind tbat' he nppreciateil prizemoney to go oi with, he begssto'wdte the value of other Enesthetising agents, for the pspers, eud met with some Bucoefs. uore porticularly chloroform, o drug which But he was robberl of all hie Eoney. and for he ailminiotered- to the queen on ? April a time suffercdfroo blinduess. W[6n here- 1863, duthg tbe birth of Prince Leopold, coverud-weak, destitute, and helpless-bc and irqain on l4 Aoril 1867 ot the birth of married a Jouug woman sa Dq)r a; hinseU. Princeles Beatrice. 3oo* died unmarried on Tbey raieeil enoughto emigraie toMelbourae, 16 Juue 1868, anil wos buriedin tho Bromp. where tbey becene Eansg€rE of an hotel. In ton cemeterv. a few monthe they cleareil 2001.; but Snodg An autotipe reoroiluction from a prteenta- health bmke down. cnd aft€r manv wsrder- tion portnit^nudo in 1866 ispreffx'ed to Sir ings they returnedio Englaual. Suo* no* B. W. Richanrlson's' Memoir.' Snow'epub- resumed his literary woit; he obtained e from contributions to oituation as amauuinsir to e retired navel lisheil worLs. eoart ron medical peri6diials. ars: l. the Mode 9$c"r,- and- afte_r him to otbers, jncluding. of Comm'unicatiou of Cholera,' 8vo, London, Macaulay, for whom he trauscdtid the 6rsu yolumesof rHistorr.' 1849 ; Znil eit.1866; this workrrss tranelsted two tbe He consultod into Glerman, Que.llinburgr 1856. 2. 'Chloro- Macaulay as to his literary oroiects. which fon end other Anesthelice, eilited, with o included-a bietory of the J6w'o;'but i["cau- Memoir, by B. W. Riehardeonr'Svo, London, toy poiuted out [hat, he had iot suficient 1858. Snow wes engaged on this work at qcholgrphlp fo1_!hat taslr, anrl suggwted r the time of hia deoth. detailed lile of Nelsou. [Memoir by Sir B. W. Richardron, prafired, After o year in Auericq Snow mtumed to Cbloroform and otbe.r Aneatleticr (ree ebovo), in 186O to volunteer for one of the eroe in the aleloPiad' rsET' iY' 271- ditiong in search of Sir Js[a frsnlrlin. To i63.1no"* thie step hewas pronpted byadreaurwbicb (D(ftn ,1 7, *-()

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