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Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM, PC, FRS, FRCSE, FRCPGlas, FRCS (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) was a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventive healthcare.
Joseph Lister (born April 5, 1827, Upton, Essex, England—died February 10, 1912, Walmer, Kent) was a British surgeon and medical scientist who was the founder of antiseptic medicine and a pioneer in preventive medicine.
Dec 21, 2022 · Joseph Lister was a prominent British surgeon and medical scientist who established the study of antisepsis. Applying Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of fermentation on wound putrefaction, he promoted the idea of sterilization in surgery using carbolic acid (phenol) as an antiseptic.
On the centenary of Joseph Lister’s death, it is appropriate to remember and honour his remarkable accomplishments that earned him the title “father of modern surgery.”
Oct 14, 2018 · Joseph Lister was the Victorian surgeon whose science-based standard of infection control, the antisepsis system, has saved countless lives. Based on the germ theory of disease, it led to the use of antiseptics.
Mar 11, 2017 · In March, 1867, Joseph Lister (1827–1912) published a paper in The Lancet announcing his antiseptic system for healing wounds. His discovery changed medicine and surgery— eventually. To mark the 150th anniversary of this publication, we examine the establishment and evolution of germ-free surgery, from Lister's time through the antibiotic era.
Joseph Lister, later Baron Lister (of Lyme Regis), (born April 5, 1827, Upton, Essex, Eng.—died Feb. 10, 1912, Walmer, Kent), British surgeon and medical scientist. He received a medical degree from Oxford in 1852 and became an assistant to James Syme, the greatest surgical teacher of the day.
Joseph Lister was a British surgeon whose work in preventing infections revolutionised surgery. When Lister began his career as a surgeon, wound infections were a common...
Joseph Lister (1827-1912) was Professor of Clinical Surgery at King’s College London from 1877 to 1893. He is considered ‘the father of modern surgery’ having saved countless lives through the introduction of his antiseptic system.
Paul F. Clark, Joseph Lister, his Life and Work, The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 6 (Dec., 1920), pp. 518-539
