NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Joseph Lister found a way to prevent infection in wounds during and after surgery. He was the first to apply the science of Germ Theory to surgery. Lister’s Antisepsis System is the basis of modern infection control. His principles made surgery safe and continue to save countless lives.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the late 1860s, Joseph Lister, a surgeon in Glasgow, Scotland, followed Pasteur’s lead: he devised antiseptic surgical techniques, using chemicals to kill bacteria. In Cleveland, as elsewhere across the United States, antiseptic surgery began winning acceptance around 1876.

Detailed explanation-3: -The development of the antiseptic system by Joseph Lister, Professor of Clinical Surgery at King’s between 1877 and 1893, strikingly changed this outlook for patients.

Detailed explanation-4: -He found an effective antiseptic in carbolic acid, which had already been used as a means of cleansing foul-smelling sewers and had been empirically advised as a wound dressing in 1863. Lister first successfully used his new method on August 12, 1865; in March 1867 he published a series of cases.