On the 28th September 1928, the bacteriologist Alexander Fleming laid for the foundation for a revolution in modern medicine when he discovered the world’s first antibiotic.
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’.
On the 14th May 1796, English physician and scientist Edward Jenner purposefully infected 8-year James Phipps with cowpox.
Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was confined to permanent quarantine on North Brother Island in New York.
Dr James Hiram Bedford became the first human to be cryonically preserved.
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.
On the 11th September 1978, Janet Parker became the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox.
On the 12th August 1865 Joseph Lister carried out the world’s first antiseptic surgery using the chemical phenol, otherwise known as carbolic acid.
Josef Mengele, the Nazi ‘Angel Of Death’, was transferred to begin work at Auschwitz concentration camp.
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