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| 1874 || || || The word 'sterilization' is first used as in: sterilization by heat of organic liquids.<ref name="Rogers"/> ||
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| 1875 || {{w|Disinfectant}} || || "One hundred and thirty years were to pass before another paper on evaluation appeared and by this time much more was known and published about bacteria. This paper was by Bucholtz (1875), who published publishes his determinations of the concentrations of, amongst other substances, {{w|phenol}}, {{w|creosote }} and [[w:Salicylic acid|salicylic ]] and {{w|benzoic acid }} required to inhibit the growth of and to kill mixed cultures of unnamed micro-organisms."<ref name="Hugo"/> ||
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| 1876 || || || {{w|Robert Koch}} publishes his work on anthrax, for the first time conclusively proving that a bacterium could be a specific infectious agent.<ref name="Hewlett"/> ||