On this day in 1867, Joseph Lister, a forty-year-old doctor ... germs before they had a chance to cause infection, and the hand-washing kept new germs from being introduced.

Doctors at a German clinic prepare for an operation by washing their hands ... Scottish surgeon Joseph Lister also propelled the idea of sanitizing hands and surgical instruments to halt ...

Surgeons did not wear gloves, wash their hands or sterilize instruments ... A British surgeon, Joseph Lister, built on this knowledge to change surgery forever. Joseph Lister was born in 1827 ...

It has become a ubiquitous mantra in the time of COVID-19: Wash your hands ... and British surgeon Joseph Lister, who pioneered the use of antiseptic in surgeries. As doctors grappled with ...

Later, British surgeon Joseph Lister adopted antiseptic practices using carbolic acid to clean wounds and surgical tools, ushering in the era of sterile surgery. Hand hygiene was finally gaining ...

1867: British surgeon Joseph ... between hygiene and infection. Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis had discovered by 1847 that the simple act of obstetricians washing their hands in a chlorine ...

This isn't surprising. hand-washing became known as a major way to slow the spread of infections way back in the 1850s when Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister documented what a huge difference it made.

Though Dr Semmelweis was right, hand washing did not become a norm until two decades later when research by Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch and Joseph Lister produced more evidence for germ theory and ...

Surgeons, however, most likely win the hand-washing award these days. Surgical gloves did not exist when the 19th century surgeon Joseph Lister, whose name was co-opted by the product Listerine ...

The book makes no bones (pun unfortunately intended) about what you'll find inside — it's subtitled Joseph Lister's Quest to ... and a gentleman's hands are clean." I still wasn't ready.