Antiseptics

=**__Antiseptics__**= __**Joseph Lister**__
 * An English surgeon, Joseph Lister introduced antiseptics to hospitals. He started experimenting with some chemical solutions, many containing cabolic acid which he believed killed germs and bacteria.** ** Lister introduced sterile surgery, a patient could undergo a procedure successfully only to die from a postoperative infection known as ‘ward fever’. **
 * Born in Essex, Lister was interested in surgery from an early stage - he was present at the first surgical procedure carried out under anaesthetic in 1846. Lister continued his studies in London and passed his examinations, becoming a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1852. He was recommended to visit Professor of Clinical Surgery James Syme (1799-1870) in Edinburgh and became his dresser, then house surgeon and then his son-in-law. **
 * Lister moved to Glasgow in 1860 and became a Professor of Surgery. He read Pasteur's work on micro-organisms and decided to experiment with using one of Pasteur's proposed techniques, that of exposing the wound to chemicals. He chose dressings soaked with carbolic acid (phenol) to cover the wound and the rate of infection was vastly reduced. Lister then experimented with hand-washing, sterilising instruments and spraying carbolic in the theatre while operating, in order to limit infection. His lowered infection rate was very good and Listerian principles were adopted throughout many countries by a number of surgeons. Lister is now known as the ‘father of antiseptic surgery’. **

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=__**Problems**__= __**what life was like before the invention**__ =__What life was like after antiseptics__=
 * Before antiseptics were invented people would get cuts and wounds and then it would get infected and people would die from it. If you got cut bacteria (dirt) would get into your blood and then the bacteria would multiply and spread.**
 * It was alot more hygeinic.**