Joseph Lister

Spent Friday at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (The College). The speaker's room was the Lister Room. Containing memorabilia of his astonishing research and life that led directly to antiseptic surgery.

"In August 1865, Lister applied a piece of lint dipped in carbolic acid solution onto the wound of a seven-year-old boy at Glasgow Infirmary, who had sustained a compound fracture after a cart wheel had passed over his leg. After four days, he renewed the pad and discovered that no infection had developed, and after a total of six weeks he was amazed to discover that the boy's bones had fused back together, without the danger of suppuration. He subsequently published his results in The Lancet in a series of six articles, running from March through July 1867"