Antiseptic

Question 1

Who discovered that dirty hands caused infection but couldn’t prove it? What year?

Answer 1

Semmelweiss who helped women deliver their children - 1847

Question 2

What year did Louis Pasteur discover germs?

Answer 2

1861

Question 3

What year did Lister take Pasteur’s work and apply it to surgery?

Answer 3

1867

Question 4

What acid did Lister chose as his antiseptic?

Answer 4

Carbolic Acid

Question 5

How did Lister chose carbolic acid to be an antiseptic?

Answer 5

• Lister heard that carbolic was used to treat sewage and thought that it could be used to treat wounds.

Question 6

How did Lister test carbolic acid?

Answer 6

Lister soaked bandages in carbolic acid and treated a boys broken leg. The boys leg healed with no infection to the wound.

Question 7

What was created for surgeons to use in surgery?

Answer 7

A donkey engine - It squirted out carbolic acid constantly throughout an operation.

Question 8

Why did doctors and surgeons oppose the donkey engine?

Answer 8

The donkey engine was extremely distracting to the surgeons.

It slows down the operation