Inspired by Pasteur's work on germs, the Scottish surgeon Joseph Lister began to treat wounds and surgical instruments with carbolic acid in Glasgow in 1865, and published his results in The Lancet in 1867. At the time nearly half of patients undergoing major amputations died of infection. After his methods were adopted, surgical mortality fell dramatically, and his spray, and later the use of boiled instruments and sterile gloves, evolved into aseptic technique. Lister's methods made operations on the abdomen, chest and brain possible.
Before and after
- 22 November 1866Birth of Wassily Kandinsky
- 1867Rise of Deobandi
- 1867Publication of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy
- 1867Dynamite
- 1867Joseph Lister introduces antiseptic surgery
- 14 January 1867Death of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- from 1 March 1867 to 28 October 1918Austria–Hungary
- 30 March 1867Alaska Purchase
- 3 April 1867Discovery of Tempel 1
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