Science and Medicine

Ernst von Bergmann

Ernst Gustav Benjamin von Bergmann (16 December 1836 – 25 March 1907) was a Baltic German surgeon. He was the first physician to introduce heat sterilisation of surgical instruments and is known as a pioneer of aseptic surgery.

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• ▸Famine in India
• ▸Ironstone mining in Rosedale
• ▸Climate change denial

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