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12 unusual facts about Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister


Andrew Houison

He did post-graduate research in antisepsis with Professor Joseph Lister and was offered a position as Lister's research assistant.

Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery

"Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery" is a paper regarding antiseptics written by Joseph Lister in 1867.

August Socin

He was one of the first physicians in Europe to advocate the use of Joseph Lister’s antiseptic practices.

Enrico Albanese

In 1865 he became director of the Civil Hospital of Palermo and he also founded a paediatric ward and antiseptic operating room, one of the first to follow Joseph Lister’s theories.

Fairholme Manor Bed and Breakfast

Fairholme was built for John Chapman Davie, a prominent doctor and surgeon who is known today as an early promoter of Sir Joseph Lister's antiseptic surgical methods.

Fiona Godlee

On her paternal grandfather's side, she is a great great great grand daughter of Joseph Jackson Lister, pioneer of the compound microscope and father of Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister.

Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum

Nussbaum is remembered for the development of innovative surgical operations, and the introduction of Lister's antiseptic practices into surgery at Munich.

Joseph Lister

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827–1912), British surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery

Listerine

Currently promoted with the slogan "Kills germs that cause bad breath", it was named after Joseph Lister who advocated the idea of sterile surgery by sterilizing instruments.

Louis Linck

These are still on permanent display in their "Hall of Immortals", and include statues of Marie Curie, Andreas Vesalius, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Ambroise Paré, Joseph Lister, and Hippocrates.

Rhoda Truax

Joseph Lister, Father of Modern Surgery, Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis and New York, 1944

Tourniquet

Joseph Lister is credited for being the first to use a tourniquet device to create a bloodless surgical field in 1864.


Joseph Lister

Joseph Jackson Lister (1786–1869), his father, amateur British opticist and physicist

Max von Gruber

The working conditions in the Institute of Hygiene were so poor, that Gruber attempted to resign his chair and find employment as head of a laboratory in München or at the Jenner Institute in London, under Joseph Lister.

Thomas George Roddick

Earlier in 1877, Roddick traveled to Edinburgh to witness Joseph Lister's medical antiseptic system.