An iron lung respirator was used for the first time at Boston Children’s Hospital.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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On 12 August Lister used a piece of lint doused in carbolic acid to cover the compound fracture wound of a seven-year-old boy. Over a period of six weeks the wound healed without developing gangrene.
Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was confined to permanent quarantine on North Brother Island in New York.
Röntgen was experimenting with vacuum tubes at the University of Würzburg when he discovered the new ‘invisible light’ on 8 November 1895.
South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant.
The first well-publicised public demonstration of inhaled ether anaesthesia was given at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Fleming found that a petri dish containing staphylococci bacteria had been contaminated with an unidentified fungus. The bacteria around the fungus had been destroyed, whereas bacteria that were further away survived.
Janet Parker first became ill on 11 August, but nine days passed before she was admitted to hospital and her infection was identified as smallpox.
The trials of the Pendle Witches are not only some of the most famous but also some of the best recorded witch trials in British history, and represent two per cent of all British witches to face trial over three centuries.
The Labour government of Clement Atlee won the first post-war election with a pledge to implement the recommendations of the 1942 Beveridge Report and improve the social welfare system in Britain.
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