Joseph Lister
Who is Joseph Lister best known as?
The father of modern surgery
What pioneering technique is Joseph Lister most famous for developing?
Antiseptic methods
Which chemical did Joseph Lister use as a disinfectant in surgery?
Carbolic acid
Joseph Lister's antiseptic methods were inspired by which scientist's work?
Louis Pasteur
In which country was Joseph Lister born?
England
What was the primary goal of Joseph Lister's antiseptic technique?
To reduce infections after surgery
Which title was granted to Joseph Lister in recognition of his work?
Sir
Which hospital is associated with Joseph Lister's early antiseptic experiments?
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Which year did Joseph Lister first apply carbolic acid during surgery?
1865
What impact did Joseph Lister’s techniques have on surgical procedures?
They reduced surgical mortality rates
What was carbonic acid used as
a chemical barrier and antiseptic
Jamie greenless
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
how were surgeries cleaned
carbobic acid was spayed onto surgeons hands , the wound and instruments bandages and ligatures were also soaked
why did lieter recive criticism
many did not believe a biologically based theory of infection
Charlton Bastian
Lectured widely on spontaneous generation
Opposition to antiseptic surgery
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
antispetic surgery (1890s)
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
Berkeley Moynihan
first british surgeon to wear rubber gloves
what were farmers reluctant to do during the cattle plauge of 1866
quarantine and slaughter the cattle
who was appointed to investigate the cattle crisis with a microscope
Professor Lionel Beale
John Tyndall
Defended pasteurs theory in britian and argued against spontaneous generation
Typhoid Fever and Prince Albert
in 1861 Typhoid fever killed price albert and the anti contagionists tried to identify the microbe but never did
Typhoid Fever
Infectious Bacterial disease which caused red spots and severe intestional irritation