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GORDON, Alexander (1752 – 1799)

GORDON, Alexander (1752 – 1799)

1752 – 1799

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1795 CE

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A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever of Aberdeen.

Gordon was the first to advance as a definite hypothesis the contagious nature of puerperal fever, thus preceding Holmes and Semmelweis by half a century. He also advocated the disinfection of the clothes of the docto…