Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister

By Joseph Lister using antiseptics in surgery, the cleanliness of modern surgery is very sanitary and does not cause infection to patients and many of the infections led to amputations and death. Joseph Lister was born in 1827 in Newham and he died in 1912. (Lister’s carbolic spray, n.d. para. 1) Lister married his boss’s daughter Agnes. Lister and Agnes had no children. Agnes was always helpful in his experiments. (Lamont, 1992, para, 7) Lister was always interested in science, even as a child

Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, usually known as Paracelsus, was born in Einsiedeln, Switzerland on either the 11th November or 17th December 1493. This was the time of the Renaissance. He died on the 24th September 1541. During this period of time surgery was practiced mostly by barbers, who used the same tools for both their trades. Medicine was primitive and painful in this era. There was much controversy over how to manage wounds, for example the argument of whether or

The Changes In Medicine In The Nineteenth Century The nineteenth century was one of the most important eras in the history of medicine as many new cures and technologies were discovered. At the beginning, many poor people still lived in houses without proper sanitation, worked in dangerous factories and drank water from polluted rivers. By the end of the century, social conditions had improved, medicine was more complex, treatments were more widely offered and technology

Asepsis is the state of being free from disease-causing contaminants (such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites) or, preventing contact with microorganisms. The term asepsis often refers to those practices used to promote or induce asepsis in an operative field in surgery or medicine to prevent infection. Asepsis is a term that is used, medically, and surgically. Medically asepsis is being concerned with eliminating the spread of microorganisms through facility practices. In my own words, that

Medical asepsis is concerned with destroying pathogenic organisms once they exit the host. To elaborate, medical asepsis technique is a process in which specific measures and procedures are utilized in order to prevent the transmission of disease causing organisms from person to person, or to healthcare staff. General examples of medical asepsis include wearing gloves, sanitizing various surfaces, and wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). A more specific example of medical asepsis would be

surgery. Lister spent the next five years conducting his own research on the matter. He heard about the use of Carbolic acid in the sewage systems to kill odor and got the idea to try it on a surgery. He first tried it on an eleven year old boy suffering from a compound fracture of his leg. Lister applied the carbolic acid to the wound and then covered it in lint soaked in the acid as well. When he checked on the wound a few days after surgery there was no sign of swelling or foul odor. Lister redressed

How Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis Almost Saved Countless Lives in 1847 Since 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis had been advocating in the medical community for the increase in the practice of handwashing. Based on the work of medical historian Dr. Howard Markel, we know that Dr. Semmelweis pioneered the medical field in prophylaxis (the prevention of disease) through his use of sanitation. Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was a “prickly Hungarian obstetrician” at Vienna General Hospital (Markel 1). An obstetrician is a doctor qualified

Surgical Asepsis is the absence of all microorganisms within an invasive procedure. It includes, sterile technique, which is a specific set of practices, procedures to make equipment, instruments, and the surgical environment free from all microorganisms. Surgical asepsis relates to surgical technologist because their responsibility is to practice aseptic technique by remaining sterile and maintaining a sterile environment during a procedure. https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/chapter/surgical-asepsis/

Forensic veterinary pathology: non-drowning asphyxia Introduction To ancient Greeks “asphuxia” meant “without pulse”, a definition that was transformed in the mid-nineteenth century to denote “suffocation” . Although modern medical dictionaries often differ in their exact definitions of asphyxia, all refer to oxygen deprivation often combined with failure to eliminate carbon dioxide . Life depends on oxygen and deprivation of oxygen causes cell injury or death due to decreased oxidative respiration

today. Prior to the work of Joseph Lister, the hospital was a place to go to die, not to be cured. If an individual was able to survive the pain and torture of surgery without anesthesia, a postoperative infection would most certainly be their ultimate demise. Thanks to Joseph Lister, later known as Baron Lister, a hospital is now a place of healing and cleanliness, not one of death and filth. Lister's Early Life: Joseph Lister was born to Joseph Jackson Lister and Isabella Harris on April