Sir Alexander Ogston: A life at medical and military frontlines

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Talk by Dr David A Rennie, biographer

Discover the achievements of surgical innovator Sir Alexander Ogston (1844–1929), who discovered the Staphylococcus bacterium in 1881 in a laboratory in the garden of his home at 252 Union Street. Staphylococcus remains one of the top five causes of hospital-acquired infection.