Joseph Lister father of antiseptic surgery
kavitha_grade1 - Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:01:20 PM
Carbolic acid
Lister now began to clean wounds and dress them using a solution of carbolic acid
kavitha_grade1 - Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:03:56 PM
Post operative sepsis
By the middle of the nineteenth century, post-operative sepsis infection accounted for the death of almost half of the patients undergoing major surgery. A common report by surgeons was: operation successfully but the patient died.
kavitha_grade1 - Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:13:20 PM
discovery
In the previous year Lister had heard that 'carbolic acid' was being used to treat sewage in Carlise, and that fields treated with the affluent were freed of a parasite causing disease in cattle.
kavitha_grade1 - Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:23:28 PM
who is he
Joseph Lister, a British surgeon, doubted this explanation. For many years he had explored the inflammation of wounds, at the Glasgow infirmary. These observations had led him to considered that infection was not due to bad air alone, and that 'wound sepsis' was a form of decomposition.