Joseph Lister

Surgeons used to operating in filthy conditions with unwashed hands, for example, and at first dismissed the 1865 discovery by Joseph Lister of antiseptic techniques in preventing infection.

Healing Reads: The Year's Five Best Books Laura Landro 2011

The mysterious death of a friend was the catalyst for a scientific breakthrough that revolutionized medical treatment in the mid–19th century, and presaged the work of Joseph Lister and Louis Pasteur.

So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

The mysterious death of a friend was the catalyst for a scientific breakthrough that revolutionized medical treatment in the mid–19th century, and presaged the work of Joseph Lister and Louis Pasteur.

So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

That problem was addressed by antiseptic surgical procedures, introduced in 1867 by the British surgeon Joseph Lister.

Gowns, Germs and Steel William Bynum 2011

In 1867 we go to Glasgow, where Joseph Lister's epidemic-preventing hospital reforms included disinfectants; then in 1930, to the Hygiene Museum in Dresden.

Dishing the 'Dirt' on Filth Paul Levy 2011

René Laennec invented his stethoscope in 1816, not 1819; the discoverer of X-rays, Wilhelm Roentgen, worked in Würzburg, in Bavaria, not Paris, and Joseph Lister was English, not Scottish.

Gowns, Germs and Steel William Bynum 2011

It was named for the famous English surgeon Joseph Lister, who performed the first antiseptic surgical procedure.

Dr. Larry Dossey: Creating Disease: Big Pharma and Disease Mongering 2010

The idea of antiseptic would not make it to our hospitals until after a British doctor, Joseph Lister, discovered the work of Louis Pasteur in 1865.

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

It was named for the famous English surgeon Joseph Lister, who performed the first antiseptic surgical procedure.

Dr. Larry Dossey: Creating Disease: Big Pharma and Disease Mongering 2010

Joseph Lister banked on Pasteur's work to develop antiseptic methods in surgery.

Notable Physicians, Medicine And Christ, The Great Physician I 2009