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’.
4th August 221: The death of Lady Zhen of the Three Kingdoms
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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.
South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant.
On the 12th August 1865 Joseph Lister carried out the world’s first antiseptic surgery using the chemical phenol, otherwise known as carbolic acid.
28th January 1393: Charles VI of France and the Bal des Ardents
28th January 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites
14th October 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019