Following Louis Pasteur’s discovery of germ theory, Joseph Lister found a way to kill germs ... Not all surgeons approved of the use of carbolic acid in surgery. Some surgeons complained that ...

An example of a machine used by Lister to spray carbolic acid into the air when he was carrying out an operation This proved that antiseptic surgery significantly reduced the risk of infection ...

and still longer before Lister's application of the antiseptic method to surgery. One wonders when the word became current in ...

In 1867 he announced his system of antiseptic surgery. Then he moved to King's College London as professor of surgery and was made Baron Lister of Lyme Regis in 1897 and was one of the original ...