Sir Joseph Lister
1827-1912
British Surgeon
Joseph Lister is recognized as the father of antiseptic surgery. His insistence that a surgeon must protect the wound against outside
organisms is one of th...
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The English surgeon Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis (1827-1912), discovered the antiseptic technique, which represents the beginning of modern surgery.Born in Upton, Essex, on April 5, 1...
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Joseph Lister contributed to a fundamental revolution in surgery with the introduction of his antiseptic method. At the time Lister was practicing medicine, the mortality rate for certain injuries and...
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Identifying antiseptics and disinfectants has been challenging part of medicine for centuries. Joseph Lister, an English surgeon, contributed to a fundamental revolution in surgery with the introducti...
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Joseph Lister, born in Upton, Essex, the son of a London wine merchant, developed antiseptic surgery, saving innumerable patients from the dreadful pain and death of post-surgical infection.Lister's f...
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Joseph Lister, born in Upton, Essex, the son of a London wine merchant, developed antiseptic surgery, saving innumerable patients from the dreadful pain and death of post-surgical infection.Lister's f...
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