British science writer Fitzharris slices into medical history with this excellent biography of Joseph Lister, the 19th-century “hero of surgery.” Lister championed the destruction of microorganisms in ...

Before King-Emperor George V, waiting at Buckingham Palace last week, went 100 erudite men to retell, rhetorically, the world’s obligations to Baron Joseph Lister, born just 100 years before, dead but ...

1867: British surgeon Joseph Lister performs the first surgery under antiseptic conditions. Death rates would plummet, but you should still be thankful you were born in the 20th century and not the ...

Operating areas of hospitals were a gory, infectious mess until Joseph Lister thought to take the fight to germs. Corbis/VCG via Getty Images The only place you’d expect to encounter the “unmistakable ...

Pain Patients were awake during operations. This meant they were often screaming and moving around during surgery, making it difficult for the surgeon to carry out an operation. Infection In surgery, ...

Imagine facing a surgery without anesthesia, in a smelly operating room that was not clean or sterile with a surgeon wearing a blood-stained apron. We all would run screaming out the door! Prior to ...

What was the most dangerous place in the vast territories of the British Empire in the 19th century? Was it the savage savannas of Zululand? Perhaps the frozen wastes of the Northwest Passage, or the ...

My object is a boxed presentation copy of a poem written in Hungarian in Budapest on 29 September 1883 by a Dr. Farkas Laszlo in praise of Joseph Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic surgery. It is bound ...

ASHWAUBENON - The National Railroad Museum is giving new life to a historic train car. The Joseph Lister hospital car, built in 1930, will open to the public on April 21 after nearly three years of ...