Following Louis Pasteur’s discovery of germ theory, Joseph Lister found a way to kill germs ... Not all surgeons approved of the use of carbolic acid in surgery. Some surgeons complained that ...

Joseph Lister published a paper with results announcing his antiseptic system in The Lancet. What followed was a series of ...

An example of a machine used by Lister to spray carbolic acid into the air when he was carrying out an operation This proved that antiseptic surgery significantly reduced the risk of infection ...

In 1867 he announced his system of antiseptic surgery. Then he moved to King's College London as professor of surgery and was made Baron Lister of Lyme Regis in 1897 and was one of the original ...

Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine in 1796, pioneering immunization practices. Louis Pasteur demonstrated that microorganisms cause disease and introduced pasteurization. Robert Koch ...