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.
刚听说一种新型冠状病毒正扩散到欧洲时，我想到了约翰•斯诺(John Snow)。斯诺是一名早期的麻醉师（他在维多利亚女王(Queen Victoria)分娩时曾两次给她使用氯仿麻醉，女王对此心存感激），但在1854年霍乱爆发期间，他成了一名“疾病侦探”，他去伦敦的贫民窟探访，以查明这种疾病是如何传播的。
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