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Today in the History of Medicine, Botany, and related sciences
March 16

• 1867 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet. • 1851, born, Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931) and is considered the founder of virology for his discovery of the bodies that caused tobacco mosiac disease. • 1905, born, Marlin Perkins, American naturalist (d. 1986), best known as the host of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom television program. • 1925, born, Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (d. 2004). • 1935, died, John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, controversial Nobel Prize laureate for his role in the discovery of insulin (b. 1876).

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