1914-1915

Alexis Carrel and Henry Dakin, who met in the lab of a French field hospital, jointly develop the Dakin-Carrel Method of deep irrigation of infected wounds using antiseptics; jointly, they “have stretched the first-generation Listerian approach to its curative limit and devised a new method for ‘sterilizing,’ as they say , badly infected deep wounds and saving limbs and lives” (Stepansky III, 52-59, quoted at 52).