In the BMJ poll, readers have voted sanitation (15.8%), put forward by Professor Johan Mackenbach, Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam , the greatest medical breakthrough since 1840, followed by antibiotics ( 14.5% ) and anaesthesia ( 13.9%).
Some doctors disputed the result of the poll but the BBC presenter of the series "What the Victorians did for us" said that the "sanitation was a deserving winner."
The biggest group of voters were doctors ( 28.6% ) and the public ( 21.8% ).
See the full ballot results.
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