Talk:Benjamin Ward Richardson

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the science and academia work group (assessed as Low-importance).

Medicine: Society Low‑importance

	Medicine portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Medicine, which recommends that medicine-related articles follow the Manual of Style for medicine-related articles and that biomedical information in any article use high-quality medical sources. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine.MedicineWikipedia:WikiProject MedicineTemplate:WikiProject Medicinemedicine articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the Society and Medicine task force (assessed as Low-importance).

Temperance and Prohibition (inactive)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Temperance and Prohibition, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.Temperance and ProhibitionWikipedia:WikiProject Temperance and ProhibitionTemplate:WikiProject Temperance and ProhibitionTemperance and Prohibition articles

Untitled[edit]

I have added a short note concerning the relationship between Snow's and Ward Richardson's to reflect the current view of medical historians. Together Snow and Ward Richardson substantially created anaesthesiology in the c19th. Modern historians regard Snow's work as the foundation of Ward Richardson's and from his own writings, so did he. I guess Ward Richardson himself would have been dismayed, had he read his posthumous entry in DNB, to find no reference to his friend; he was a tireless campaigner for Snow's recognition throughout his life RJBL0 (talk) 10:51, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]