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2 unusual facts about antiseptic


Biotextile

Antiseptic biotextiles are textiles used in fighting against cutaneous bacterial proliferation.

J-Wear

The clothing is anti-bacterial, water-absorbent, odor-eliminating, antistatic, and flame retardant.


Antiseptic lavage

Antiseptic lavage is a means of washing, especially of a hollow organ, such as the stomach or lower bowel, with repeated injections of warm water mixed with an antiseptic or antifungal solution.

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.

AT-7

Hexachlorophene, an organic chemical that was used as an antiseptic and also in agriculture

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.

George Francis Willis

He sold his firm in 1922 but then made another fortune with Zonite, an antiseptic preparation based on Dakin's Solution, widely used in World War I.

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

Norwich Pharmaceuticals

In 1893, Norwich introduced Unguentine to the medical profession as the first antiseptic surgical dressing.

Physalis alkekengi

The dried fruit of P. alkekengi is called the golden flower in the Unani system of medicine, and used as a diuretic, antiseptic, liver corrective, and sedative.

Thomas George Roddick

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


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