Talk:Alexander Gordon (physician)

A fact from Alexander Gordon (physician) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 July 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Alexander Gordon clearly demonstrated that childbirth fever was contagious 66 years before Ignaz Semmelweis did?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:59, 16 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Alexander Gordon clearly demonstrated that childbirth fever was contagious 66 years before Ignaz Semmelweis? Source: "Ignaz Semmelweiss published his seminal work Die Aetilogie der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers some 66 years after Gordon's Treatise " Lowis

Reviewed: Robert Plunkett

5x expanded by Iainmacintyre (talk). Self-nominated at 10:19, 23 June 2020 (UTC).[reply]

This interesting article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:27, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]