joseph lister in English
noun
Baron Lister (1827-1912), English surgeon and medical scientist who showed (in 1865) that carbolic acid was an efficient antiseptic and antibacterial substance
Use "joseph lister" in a sentence
1. In the mid-1800s, American surgeon Joseph Lister used Carbolic …
2. In this engrossing story, Nuland shows how Semmelweis's groundbreaking discovery of how Childbed fever was transmitted was later validated by the work of Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister
3. The widespread introduction of Antiseptic surgical methods was initiated by the publishing of the paper Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery in 1867 by Joseph Lister, which was inspired by Louis Pasteur's germ theory of putrefaction