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Surgical sterile techniques. Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (April 5, 1827–February 10, 1912) was an English surgeon and professor of surgery who introduced antiseptic surgical techniques. He is sometimes known as the "father of modern surgery" because of his overcoming one of the major obstacles to successful surgery, the control of infection.
Apr 5, 2021 · Joseph Lister's contribution to microbiology was the use of antiseptic materials, like phenol / carbolic acid, in surgery. This may help you in your GCSE his...
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Joseph Jackson Lister (born January 11, 1786, London, England—died October 24, 1869, West Ham, Essex) was an English amateur opticist whose discoveries played an important role in perfecting the objective lens system of the microscope, elevating that instrument to the status of a serious scientific tool. Lister discovered a method of ...
Sep 28, 2013 · Joseph Lister's domestic science. In the spring of 1847, John Phillips Potter, a young Demonstrator of Anatomy at University College Hospital, in London, UK, sustained a knuckle scratch during the dissection of an infected corpse. Although at the time he thought little of it, the infection spread inexorably.
British scientist Joseph Lister noticed that surgery patients often died from infection. He developed a method for keeping microbes , or germs, from entering the body during and after an operation. He introduced principles of cleanliness that remain important to surgery today.
Apr 3, 2010 · This biographical sketch on Baron Joseph Lister corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery (1867), available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-010-1320-x.
Jul 1, 2022 · Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912, Surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography, Surgery, Aseptic and antiseptic -- History 351 p., 16 p. of plates : 25 cm
