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Timeline of infection control

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| 1860 || Publication || {{w|Hospital-acquired infection}} || English social reformer {{w|Florence Nightingale}} publishes ''Notes on Nursing'', a series of guidelines with recommendations on sanitation and hospital environment. These publications prompt new policies of control of cross-infection in most hospitals.<ref name="Wright"/> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
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| 1863 || Disinfection method introduction || {{w|Anthrax}} || {{w|Casimir Devaine}} demonstrates that porcelain filters retained {{w|anthrax}} bacteria.<ref name="Rogers"/> || {{w|France}}
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| 1865 || {{w|Disinfectant}} introduction || Microbial pathogens || {{w|Joseph Lister}} applies a piece of lint dipped in carbolic acid solution to the wound of an eleven-year-old boy at {{w|Glasgow Royal Infirmary}}, who had sustained a compound fracture after a cart wheel had passed over his leg. After four days, he renewes the pad and discovers that no infection has developed. After a total of six weeks he discovers that the boy's bones have fused back together, without the danger of suppuration.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lister|first1=Joseph|title=On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery|journal=The Lancet|date=21 September 1867|volume=90|issue=2299|pages=353–356|doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(02)51827-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lister|first1=Joseph|title=On the Effects of the Antiseptic System of Treatment Upon the Salubrity of a Surgical Hospital|journal=The Lancet|date=1 January 1870|volume=95|issue=2418|pages=2–4|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(02)31273-X}}</ref> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
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