> In 1905, ALICE HAMILTON (1869–1970), a Chicago physician, proposed that scarlet fever was transmitted through droplet infection and recommended doctors wear masks at the time of surgery because of heavy droplet transmission from the mouth and nose while talking and teaching. This may have been the first recommendation that surgeons wear masks.
original suggestion predated Spanish Flu by only a decade
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