Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister was born in Essex in 1827 in England. He had a great understanding of the causes of disease and infections. He attended London universities. At the start of his career he studied blood in injuries.
He was the son of physicist Joseph Jackson Lister. He began to spray Carbolic acid on wounds of his patients. He would want to keep rooms clean all the time. He had reduced surgical mortality to 15% by the year 1860.
His work with antiseptic met with initial resistance. Joseph Lister now began to clean wounds and used a solution of carbolic acid. He was able to announce at a British Medical Association meeting in 1867 that his wards at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary had remained clear of infections for nine months. His introduction of antisepsis to hospitals was one of the major advances in medicine in the 19th century. He died in 1912.