What did John Snow blue plaque do at Frith Street W1?

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Standing at this Frith Street address in Soho, you're at the site where Dr. John Snow lived during the pivotal years of 1838-1852, establishing his medical practice and developing his groundbreaking theories on disease transmission. It was in his rooms here that Snow meticulously documented his early experiments with ether and chloroform anesthesia, pioneering techniques that would transform surgical medicine and earn him the chance to administer chloroform to Queen Victoria during two of her childbirths. The location proved strategically vital during the devastating 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak, as Snow could walk from here to track cases throughout Soho, leading to his famous discovery that cholera spread through contaminated water rather than "bad air" - a revelation that revolutionized epidemiology and public health.