The operating theaters of 19th century England were dirty, crowded spaces where patients screamed and spectators bought tickets to watch life and death struggles. Surgeons wore blood-encrusted ...

The book makes no bones (pun unfortunately intended) about what you'll find inside — it's subtitled Joseph Lister's ... it's a slender but effective biography of Lister, the sort of comforting ...

In the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey is a memorial to surgeon Lord Lister, pioneer of antiseptic treatment. The white marble roundel, by sculptor Sir Thomas Brock, shows a profile bust of ...

“It’s an amazing case, and there’s a picture of Joseph Lister at the boy ... The pioneering techniques and achievements of Lister are set to be showcased next month, during a week of ...

1867: British surgeon Joseph Lister performs the first surgery under antiseptic conditions. Death rates would plummet, but you should still be thankful you were born in the 20th century and not ...

On this day in 1867, Joseph Lister, a forty-year-old doctor, published an article in The Lancet that fundamentally changed medicine. “An Address on the Antiseptic System of Treatment in Surgery ...

“It’s an amazing case, and there’s a picture of Joseph Lister at the boy ... The pioneering techniques and achievements of Lister are set to be showcased next month, during a week of ...