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Events on Friday 18 July 1952 2
1896 – 1952Hugh CairnsPort Pirie, AustraliaThe Australian neurosurgeon who attended Lawrence after the crash. He went on to organise mobile neurosurgical units in the Second World War and to run the trial that proved penicillin worked on head wounds.
1952Cairns dies of cancerOxford, United KingdomHe was 56, and had been warned for years that his workload would kill him. He did not live to see helmets made compulsory for civilian riders, the change his own research had argued for.