Sir Alexander Ogston (1844 to 1929) was a British surgeon, born the eldest son of a professor of medical jurisprudence at Aberdeen, and is famous for his discovery of the bacterium Staphylococcus. He graduated in medicine and surgery at Aberdeen in 1865, became surgeon to the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in 1874 and Regius Professor of Surgery in 1882. He followed Joseph Lister's antiseptic principles and introduced the carbolic spray to Aberdeen. Working in a shed behind his house, he isolated bacteria from abscesses and named the cluster-forming form staphylococcus. He presented the work at a surgical congress in Berlin in 1880. He served in the Egyptian and Boer wars and was appointed Surgeon in Ordinary to Queen Victoria in 1892.
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19 April 1844
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1 February 1929
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was a British surgeon, famous for his discovery of Staphylococcus
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rigorously followed his antiseptic principles
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