The father of modern surgery
Antiseptic methods
Carbolic acid
Louis Pasteur
England
To reduce infections after surgery
Sir
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
1865
They reduced surgical mortality rates
a chemical barrier and antiseptic
a boy whos leg was ran over by a cart. Lister wrapped the fracture in dressings soaked in carbonic acid after 6 weeks Jamie walked out of hospital
carbobic acid was spayed onto surgeons hands , the wound and instruments bandages and ligatures were also soaked
many did not believe a biologically based theory of infection
Lectured widely on spontaneous generation
many doctors didnt accept pastors germ theory
antiseptics were already used making lister not revolutionary
people belived their methods were superoir
carbonic acid dried up peoples hands and irritated lungs
microbes were excluded in the operating theatre.
surgeons were scrubbed down wearing gowns and flexible gloves
and stoped public operating theatres switchint for smaller private rooms
first british surgeon to wear rubber gloves
quarantine and slaughter the cattle
Professor Lionel Beale
Defended pasteurs theory in britian and argued against spontaneous generation
in 1861 Typhoid fever killed price albert and the anti contagionists tried to identify the microbe but never did
Infectious Bacterial disease which caused red spots and severe intestional irritation