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Oct 14, 2018 · Joseph Lister found a way to prevent infection in wounds during and after surgery. He was the first to apply the science of Germ Theory to surgery. Lister's Antisepsis System is the basis of modern infection control.
Dec 21, 2022 · Today, asepsis and sterile techniques have replaced antisepsis as the principal method in combating wound infection. Lister’s observations and recommendations helped revolutionize surgical practice, making surgery and wound healing safer for patients.
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Apr 1, 2024 · While his method, based on the use of antiseptics, is no longer employed, his principle—that bacteria must never gain entry into an operation wound—remains the basis of surgery to this day. He was made a baronet in 1883 and raised to the peerage in 1897.
Mar 16, 2017 · Joseph Lister’s Antiseptic Revolution. 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.
Joseph Lister revolutionised the craft of surgery in the same manner that John Hunter revolutionised the science of surgery. [3] From a technical viewpoint, Lister was not an exceptional surgeon, [2] but his research into bacteriology and infection in wounds raised his operative technique to a new plane where his observations, deductions and ...
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Oct 13, 2017 · Joseph Lister directing the use of carbolic acid spray in one of his earliest antiseptic surgical operations, circa 1865. Bettmann Archive. The operating theaters of...
In the face of movements to abolish all surgery in hospitals because of the prohibitive death rate from infection, 2 Lister changed the treatment of compound fractures from amputation to limb preservation and opened the way for abdominal and other intracavity surgery.
