Surgeon Joseph Lister had never heard of viruses when he began to de velop aseptic surgery a century ago, but he showed uncanny prescience when he picked carbolic acid for the germ-killing spray in ...

Discover the impact Joseph Lister had on surgery with BBC Bitesize KS3 History. ... An example of a machine used by Lister to spray carbolic acid into the air when he was carrying out an operation.

Joseph Lister directing the use of carbolic acid spray in one of his earliest antiseptic surgical operations, circa 1865. Bettmann Archive hide caption toggle caption ...

Joseph Lister's work was influenced by Louis Pasteur's work on fermentation. iStock. Not very long ago, you could die ... Carbolic spray was exchanged for other antiseptics by 1885.

Joseph Lister was a British surgeon whose work in preventing infections revolutionised surgery. When Lister began his career as a surgeon, wound infections were a common occurrence that frequently ...

Before King-Emperor George V, waiting at Buckingham Palace last week, went 100 erudite men to retell, rhetorically, the world's obligations to Baron Joseph Lister, born just 100 years before, ...

1867: British surgeon Joseph Lister performs the first surgery under antiseptic conditions. Death rates would plummet, but you should still be thankful you were born in the 20th century and not ...

Joseph Lister argued otherwise. By . John J. Ross. Share. Resize. Operating on a patient ca. 1890. The man at right is using the carbolic-acid spray popularized by Lister. Photo: Getty Images.

Saving countless lives, the Lister way… On March 16, 1867, Joseph Lister published a paper with results announcing his antiseptic system in The Lancet.What followed was a series of articles, On ...