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 emergence of surgery from its barbaric past rested on four pillars: the understanding of anatomy, the control of bleeding, anesthesia and antisepsis.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
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
He relies chiefly—and this applies to the asylum physician also—upon intestinal antisepsis, upon rest, upon baths, upon regulation diet, and habits of life.
From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods
