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Task 4: How important were Lister’s experiments with anti septic in the development of safer surgery
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Task 4: How important were Lister's experiments with anti septic in the development of safer surgery? As well as anaesthetics, antiseptics were the most important discovery of the 19th century in the medical profession. After May 16th 1867, when Lister published his results of using his treatments on eleven compound fracture cases, antiseptics were used much more and the amount of deaths from sepsis decreased dramatically. Lister's results showed that eight out of the eleven patients he treated with a compound fracture made a full recovery. Of these eleven, eight made uneventful recoveries. Two had been attacked by hospital disease but both recovered and one patient died but his death was caused by the broken bone end piercing an artery and was not due to sepsis. This was a record of success never before attained in this type of injury. His results showed how much of an impact using antiseptics had....
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