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| 1897 || || || Polish surgeon {{w|Jan Mikulicz-Radecki}} describes a surgical mask composed on one layer of gauze.<ref name="History of Surgical Face Masks">{{cite journal |last1=Spooner |first1=John L. |title=History of Surgical Face Masks |doi=10.1016/S0001-2092(08)71359-0 |url=Johann Von Mikulicz Radecki describes a surgical mask composed on one layer of gauze.}}</ref> The practice of using face masks is considered to be introduced by him.<ref name="bloomberg.comss"/> || {{w|Poland}} || [[File:Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (c. 1878).jpg|thumb|center|150px|Jan Mikulicz-Radecki]]
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| 1897 || || || German hygienist {{w|Carl Flügge}} publishes his works on the development of droplet infections as part of his research on tuberculosis.<ref name="Fangerau"/> Flügge, along with {{w|Jan Mikulicz-Radecki}}, suggest the idea of a facemask after having demonstrated the presence of bacterial droplets from the nose and mouth.<ref name="Aschenbrenner">{{cite journal |last1=Adams |first1=Lu Wang |last2=Aschenbrenner |first2=Carol A. |last3=Houle |first3=Timothy T. |last4=Roy |first4=Raymond C. |title=Uncovering the History of Operating Room Attire through Photographs |doi=10.1097/ALN.0000000000000932 |url=https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/124/1/19/14254/Uncovering-the-History-of-Operating-Room-Attire}}</ref> <ref name="Fangerau"/> || {{w|Germany}} || [[File:Carl Flügge c1906.jpg|thumb|center|150px|Carl Flügge]]|-| 1897 || || || "In the same year, 1897, a cooperation work between Flügge and Theodor Billroth’s (1829–1894) disciple Johannes von Mikulicz (1850–1905), who also worked in Breslau since 1890, was published. Their publication dealt with performing operations wearing a ‘mouth bandage’. In here, Mikulicz described a one-layered mask made of gauze"<ref name="Fangerau"/> ||
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| 1897 || || || Doctors start wearing early surgical masks.<ref name="fastcompany.comsssa">{{cite web |last1= |title=The untold origin story of the N95 mask |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90479846/the-untold-origin-story-of-the-n95-mask#:~:text=By%20the%201970s%2C%20the%20Bureau,approved%20on%20May%2025%2C%201972. |website=fastcompany.com |accessdate=12 September 2020}}</ref> ||
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