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Joseph Lister

JOSEPH LISTER

1912 - 1827

Joseph Lister, a British surgeon who began using antiseptics in surgery, was born in 1827 in Eton, England. In 1852 he received his medical degree from the University of London, where he was an excellent student. In 1861 he became the official surgeon of the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow, and he remained in This center is for eight years. During this period, he revealed and demonstrated his method of antiseptic surgery.

In the said Royal Infirmary, Lister was in charge of the wards in the surgical department. He was appalled by the number of deaths after surgeries that occurred there, and serious injuries such as gangrene as a result of surgeries were common there.

Lister tried to make the hospital wards clean in general, but it was not enough to reduce the high death rate, and some doctors claimed that the presence of some fumes from harmful substances about the cause of these deaths. But Lester was not convinced by these words.

Then, in 1865, he read a paper that had been written by Louis Pasteur, which introduced him to the germ theory that causes diseases. Lister concluded that if germs are the cause of post-surgical infections, then the best way is to kill germs before reaching open wounds. Therefore, he deliberately used carbolic acid as a germ killer. Then it is some groups. As part of the antiseptic measures, he not only carefully cleaned his hands before each operation, but also made sure that the tools he used and the bandages were all hygienically clean. For a period of time, carbolic acid was sprayed in the operating room in the air. The result was a dramatic drop in the number of deaths. The percentage of deaths in the male accident ward was 45% in the period between 1861-1865, but it did not come in 1869, and after using the Leicester methods of purification, that the percentage decreased to only 15%.

Lister's first paper on antiseptic surgery was published in 1867, but his ideas were not quickly accepted and he was offered the chair of clinical surgery at the University of Edinburgh. During the seven years he spent there, he became famous. In 1875 he made a trip to Germany, during which he was lecturing about his ideas and methods, and in the following year he made a trip to the United States, but most of the doctors there were not convinced of his ideas.

In 1877 the chair of surgery offered him clinical repose at King's College, London, and he continued in this position for fifteen years. His ideas on aseptic surgery aroused interest in London in the medical community and resulted in a growing acceptance of his ideas. At the end of his life, his ideas were accepted by a large group of surgeons and doctors in London.

Leicester has won many honors for his pioneering work. He became President of the Royal Society for five years and became Queen Victoria's private physician. He married, but did not have children, lived until eighty, and died in 1912 in (Walmide) in England.

Lister's innovations have revolutionized the world of surgery and saved millions of lives. In addition, surgeons are now performing surgeries that they would not have attempted in earlier times when the risk of infection and injuries was great.