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1774 Swedish pharmacist Carl Wilhelm Scheele unwittingly
discovered chlorine, but it wasn’t used as a sanitizer until 73
years later, in 1847, to prevent the spread of “child bed fever”
in the maternity ward at Vienna General Hospital.