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| 1776 || || || Italian biologist {{w|Lazzaro Spallanzani}} demonstrates that it was impossible for 'spontaneous generation' of microorganisms to occur once the fluid they lived in had been boiled for an hour.<ref name="oie.int"/><ref name="Rogers"/> || {{w|Italy}}
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| 1784 || {{w|Disinfectant}} || || "In 1784, a A decree issued by the Council of the King of France obliged obliges the owners of animals affected by contagious diseases to burn or scald all harnesses, wagons and any other objects which had has been in contact with these animals".<ref name="oie.int"/> ||{{w|France}}
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| 1789 || {{w|Disinfectant}} || || "{{w|Potassium hypochlorite}} was first produced in 1789 by Claude Louis Berthollet in his laboratory located in Javel in Paris" || {{w|France}}
| 1793 || ''{{w|Cordon sanitaire}}'' || {{w|Yellow fever}} || During a yellow fever epidemic in {{w|Philadelphia}}, roads and bridges leading to the city are blocked off by soldiers from the local militia to prevent the illness from spreading. || {{w|United States}}
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| 1794 || || || "In 1794, English physician {{w|Erasmus Darwin recommended }} recommends that if cattle plague were are introduced into England, all cattle within a five mile radius of any confirmed outbreak should be 'immediately slaughtered, and consumed within the circumscribed district; and their hides put into quicklime before proper inspectors'".<ref name="oie.int"/> ||{{w|United Kingdom}}
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| 1801 || || General || The first hospital for infectious diseases is established in {{w|London}}.<ref name="Hewlett">{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Philip W. |last2=Watkins |first2=Kristin |last3=Hewlett |first3=Angela |journal=American Journal of Infection Control |url=https://cha.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/AJIC-2012-Infection-Control-Through-the-Ages.pdf|title=Infection control through the ages
