Which Scottish surgeon discovered Staphylococcus in pus from surgical abscesses?
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Alexander Ogston
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Which Scottish surgeon discovered Staphylococcus in pus from surgical abscesses?
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Which physician wrote the 1546 work De Contagione on contagious disease?
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Which physician wrote the 1546 work De Contagione on contagious disease?
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Albert Neisser
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