Within 18 months the disease had become a pandemic that infected up to a third of the entire world’s population.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
A potential diphtheria epidemic in Alaska was avoided after a dogsled relay transported vials of antitoxin 674 miles in five and a half days in “Great Race of Mercy”.
On the 12th August 1865 Joseph Lister carried out the world’s first antiseptic surgery using the chemical phenol, otherwise known as carbolic acid.
400,000 women saw their doctors to obtain Enovid contraceptive prescriptions in the first year.
Alexis St. Martin, who had been shot in the stomach, was first treated by US Army surgeon William Beaumont who became known as the ‘Father of Gastric Physiology’.
Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was confined to permanent quarantine on North Brother Island in New York.
On the 2nd February 1852, the world’s first modern public toilets opened in London.
The report drew three main conclusions focused on the effect of smoking on the functioning of the respiratory system.
An iron lung respirator was used for the first time at Boston Children’s Hospital.
On the 11th September 1978, Janet Parker became the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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