Joseph Lister

Background

A British surgeon.

Contribution

Introduced antiseptic surgery (from 1867) using carbolic acid, informed by Pasteur's germ theory, dramatically reducing post-operative infection.

Associated inventions

• Antisepsis & Germ Theory in Surgery

Collaborators & contemporaries

• Ignaz Semmelweis
• Louis Pasteur

Sources & further reading

Each citation names the publisher and the exact reference title.

• U.S. National Library of Medicine — history of medicineU.S. National Library of Medicine (NIH) · Government / archive
• Encyclopædia Britannica — technology & biography topic articlesEncyclopædia Britannica · Encyclopedia

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