JOSEPH LISTER
( 1827 - 1912)
Lord Joseph Lister was a British surgeon. He received his medical degree from university college, London. He was professor of surgery at Edinburg and later at King’s college hospital.
Lister studied Louis Pasteur’s work on micro organisms in fermentation process and thought that minute germs also cause infections. He developed techniques of antisceptic surgery. He developed techniques of antisceptic surgery. He established the British Institute of preventive medicine in 1893. It was called Lister institute after his death in 1912.
Lister involved Carbolic acid dressings, cleansing instruments and ligatures in carbolic solutions. Carbolic acid or phenol is a disinfectant that prevent all the post operative problems of infection.
Lister was the first physician to be elevated to the House of Lords. The honour was bestowed upon him by Queen Victoria. She was a patient of Lister earlier.
Lord Joseph Lister was a British surgeon. He received his medical degree from university college, London. He was professor of surgery at Edinburg and later at King’s college hospital.
Lister studied Louis Pasteur’s work on micro organisms in fermentation process and thought that minute germs also cause infections. He developed techniques of antisceptic surgery. He developed techniques of antisceptic surgery. He established the British Institute of preventive medicine in 1893. It was called Lister institute after his death in 1912.
Lister involved Carbolic acid dressings, cleansing instruments and ligatures in carbolic solutions. Carbolic acid or phenol is a disinfectant that prevent all the post operative problems of infection.
Lister was the first physician to be elevated to the House of Lords. The honour was bestowed upon him by Queen Victoria. She was a patient of Lister earlier.
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