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Joseph Lister came from a prosperous Quaker dumping ground in Upton, Essex, the son of the avant-garde of the compound microscope, Joseph Jackson Lister und Isabella Harris.
Lister endow that carbolic acid pivotal swabbed on wounds markedly reduced the incidence of gangrene und latterly utterred a skein of on the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery describing procedure on 16 March 1867 in the comic book The Lancet.
Lister larboard Glasgow in 1869, re-establishmenting to Edinburgh as successor to Syme as Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh, und continued to youth improved moduss of antisepsis und asepsis.
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 Joseph Lister Biography | World of Biology
Joseph Lister, an English surgeon, contributed to a fundamental revolution in surgery with the introduction of his antiseptic method.
Lister read about the affect of carbolic acid used on sewage bacteria in outhouses, cesspools, and stables in the nearby town of Carlisle, and developed an antiseptic system whereby he would spray carbolic acid in the operating room, and use it to sterilize the surgical instruments and his hands.
Lister first used this method in 1865 while treating a compound fracture of a leg, an injury that often claimed about 60% of patients, and where amputation of a limb was usually the only.
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Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister (1827-1912), British surgeon, whose discovery of antiseptics in 1865 greatly reduced the number of deaths due to operating-room infections.
Born in Upton, Essex, and educated at the universities of London and Edinburgh, Lister began to study the coagulation of blood and the inflammation that followed injuries and surgical wounds.
Believing infection to be caused by airborne dust particles, Lister sprayed the air with carbolic acid, a chemical that was then being used to treat foul-smelling sewers.
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Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM, FRS (5 April 1827–10 February 1912) was an English surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Joseph Lister came from a prosperous Quaker home in Upton, Essex, the son of the pioneer of the compound microscope, Joseph Jackson Lister and Isabella Harris.
Lister left Glasgow in 1869 returning to Edinburgh as successor to Syme as Professor of Surgery, at the University of Edinburgh and continued to develop improved methods of antisepsis and asepsis.
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By applying the carbolic acid to instruments and directly to wounds and dressings, Lister was thus able to reduce surgical mortality to 15 percent by 1869.
Lister's discoveries in antisepsis were met initially with resistance, but by the 1880s they had become widely accepted.
In 1897 Lister was made baron by Queen Victoria, who had been one of his patients.
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Joseph Lister is considered the father of antiseptic surgery.
Joseph Lister was born in Upton, Essex on April 5, 1827, the second son of wine merchant, amateur physicist and Quaker Joseph Jackson Lister and his wife Isabella Harris.
Joseph Lister was described as handsome with an athletic figure, fresh complexion, silver hair and hazel eyes.
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 Lister Joseph 1st Baron - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (1827-1912), British surgeon, whose methods of antiseptic surgery helped transform surgical practice.
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 Joseph Lister Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Born in Upton, Essex, on April 5, 1827, Joseph Lister was the son of a wealthy wine merchant who developed an achromatic lens for the microscope.
That same year Lister read in the newspaper that the treatment of sewage with crude carbolic acid had led to a reduction of diseases among the people of Carlisle and among the cattle grazing on sewage-treated fields.
Although Lister's antiseptic method was soon replaced by the use of asepsis, his work represented the first successful application of Pasteur's theory to surgery and marked the beginning of a new era.
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 Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jose Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM, FRS (5 April 1827, Upton, Essex10 February 1912) was an English surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Lister found that carbolic acid solution swabbed on wounds markedly reduced the incidence of gangrene and subsequently published a series of articles on the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery describing this procedure on 16 March 1867 in the journal The Lancet.
Lister moved from Scotland to King's College Hospital, in London, and became the second man in England to operate on a brain tumor.
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Born on the 5 April 1827 in Upton, Essex, Joseph Lister was the son of the British physicist...
Joseph Lister was born on the 5th April, 1827 at Upton, Essex, England.
Joseph Lister was born on 5 April 1827 in Upton Essex.
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 Lister, Joseph Lister, 1st Baron - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
LISTER, JOSEPH LISTER, 1ST BARON [Lister, Joseph Lister, 1st Baron] 1827-1912, English surgeon, educated at University College, London.
In 1865, Lister proved the effectiveness of his methods, thus founding modern antiseptic surgery.
Using carbolic acid as the antiseptic agent, he devised techniques of applying it that, when used in conjunction with his heat sterilization of instruments, brought about dramatic decreases in postoperative fatality.
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 Lister, Joseph - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Lister, Joseph
He was made a baronet in 1883, and a baron in 1897.
Lister was born in Upton, Essex, and studied at University College, London.
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 Joseph Lister - Joseph Lister Biography, History, Profile, Surgeons.
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (April 5, 1827-February 10, 1912) was a famous British surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Infirmary.
The two became close friends and Lister ended up marrying Syme's daughter Agnes, leaving the Quakers because his religion did not permit alliances with nonmembers.
Carbolic acid (phenol) had been in use as a means of deodorising sewage, so Lister tested the results of spraying instruments, the surgical incisions, and dressings with a solution of it.
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 TGS - 1830s to 1914 - Personalities - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister
Joseph Lister is best known as the originator of the antiseptic technique in surgery.
The purpose was to ensure that all germs in the vicinity of the patient, surgical staff and instruments were destroyed.
Lister was born into a wealthy Quaker family in April 1827, in Essex.
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Lister, Joseph Lister, 1st Baron LISTER, JOSEPH LISTER, 1ST BARON [Lister, Joseph Lister, 1st Baron] 1827-1912, English surgeon, educated at University College, London.
He was resident pathologist (1923-24) at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and a Beit fellow (1926-27) at the Lister Institute, London.
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 Duveen Joseph 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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Joseph Lister was a fine surgeon and is the acknowledged founder of antiseptic surgery.
In the mid nineteenth century the prevailing belief concerning infections (sepsis) was that it was caused by the entry of air into a wound.
Lister experimented with various substances to destroy these organisms in the air and in a wound.
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 UAB Archives
Historical Note:  Sir Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis, 1st Baronet, M.D., was born
, the son Joseph Jackson and Isabella Harris Lister.
Provenance: Donated to the UAB Archives in October 2001 by the daughter and son-in-law of the late Lister Hill, who had received the letters as gifts during the course of his long career as a United States Congressman and Senator.
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Lister, Joseph Lister, 1st Baron 1827–1912, English surgeon, educated at University College, London.
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