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dec 1, 1859 - Joseph Lister uses chemical disinfectant

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He used a chemical disinfectant to prevent surgical wound infections after seeing Louis Pasteur's work proving that microbes are in the air. Those microbes can spoil food and cause diseases.

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dec 1, 1859
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~ 165 years ago