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While both parents took an active part in Lister’s education, his father instructing him in natural history and the use of the microscope, Lister received his formal schooling in two Quaker institutions, which laid far more emphasis upon natural history and science than did other schools.
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Dec 21, 2022 · Joseph Lister was a prominent British surgeon and medical scientist who established the study of antisepsis. Applying Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of fermentation on wound putrefaction, he promoted the idea of sterilization in surgery using carbolic acid (phenol) as an antiseptic.
- 10.7759/cureus.32777
- 2022/12
- Cureus. 2022 Dec; 14(12): e32777.
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM, PC, FRS, FRCSE, FRCPGlas, FRCS (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) was a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventive healthcare.
On the advice of Professor Sharpely of physiology, he went to study under the renowned surgeon James Syme in Edinburgh. Lister prospered in Edinburg and married Syme’s eldest daughter, Agnes. His main research interest was inflammation, a process then considered a specific disease and not a response by healthy tissues to infection.
- Dennis Pitt, Jean-Michel Aubin
- 2012
Oct 14, 2018 · Joseph Lister was the Victorian surgeon whose science-based standard of infection control, the antisepsis system, has saved countless lives. Based on the germ theory of disease, it led to the use of antiseptics.
Mar 16, 2017 · Joseph Lister’s landmark articles on antiseptic surgery in the Lancet were published 150 years ago. The revolution was not immediate. Lister spraying phenol over the wound while the doctors perfor an operation.
Jul 3, 2018 · English surgeon Joseph Lister (April 5, 1827–February 10, 1912), Baron Lister of Lyme Regis, is considered the father of modern surgery for his work developing sterilization procedures that saved countless lives. Lister pioneered the use of carbolic acid for sanitizing operating rooms and employed antiseptic surgical procedures to prevent ...
