NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -He developed antiseptic surgery by spraying medical instruments, catgut and bandages with a 1-in-20 solution of carbolic acid. As always there was some opposition. Many surgeons claimed that Lister’s antiseptic methods slowed things, at a time when speed was still essential because of blood loss.

Detailed explanation-2: -Joseph Lister’s first published account of his use of carbolic acid was in a series of articles in The Lancet in the spring of 1867. The problem he addressed was how to prevent wound infection in compound fractures and abscesses.