George H. Tichenor

George Humphrey Tichenor was born in Kentucky on 12 April 1837 and died on 14 January 1923. He became a physician and, while serving the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, introduced antiseptic surgery to the medical service he worked in, at a time when the practice was far from universal. After the war he settled into private practice in Canton, in Madison County, Mississippi. There he worked out the formula that was later sold as Dr. Tichenor's Antiseptic, a household product that carried his name well beyond his own practice. His career joins battlefield surgery to the later popular antiseptic trade.