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

But it is troubling that it fails to note the earlier, disregarded discovery of antisepsis by Ignaz Semmelweis.

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

With removal of the diseased portion and a strict attention to antisepsis healing soon takes place.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton