antisepsis
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At the time, Joseph Lister’s pioneering antisepsis work in Britain was known to American doctors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
The tragic delay in implementing antisepsis should remind us of our obligation to see truth for what it is, regardless of the social niceties of the creative genius.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 3, 2018
Conan Doyle references Lister's use of carbolic acid for antisepsis in the 1892 story 'The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb', when Watson uses it while dressing a wound.
From Nature ● Sep. 19, 2017
When she was born there was no anesthesia and no antisepsis, hardly a thermometer, and no oxygen, IVs or antibiotics.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2014
Only for forty years have we practiced antisepsis; only for sixty years have we had anesthetics; yet life to-day is well-nigh inconceivable without them.
From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
