Lister’s early life: Lister’s father was Joseph Jackson Lister and his mother is Isabella Harris.
Joseph Lister was born on April 5th 1827 in a village that was small called Upton, England in London.
Joseph Lister’s Father was also a scientist and invented achromatic microscope in 1830 meaning that allows people to study Joseph Lister’s fathers work of cells, Bacteria and Disease.
In Joseph’s childhood he was a good student who was interested in Botany and Zoology; He also was able to enter University Collage of London in 1844.
When Joseph Lister got his collage degree on the age of 20, his work wasn’t based on humans but it was only medical treat for animals, so he has realized how important his work was for not for treating sick humans but also treating sick animals.
1876 - The Cruelty to Animals Act is passed; attended the International Congress in Philadelphia.
1860 - Appointed Regis Professor of Surgery at the University of Glasgow; Florence Nightingale school of nursing opens in London
Death: Joseph Lister died on February 12th 1912 of pneumonia.
Joseph was killed by the same killer that killed his wife, after he died everything was left behind his studies his books everything that was created by Lister was for us to remember him on what he studied in his whole entire life.
Invention Dates
Appointed Professor of Surgery at Glasgow University in 1860 and, from 1869, in Edinburgh, Lister was interested in finding a way of avoiding the commonly experienced infections in wounds. Inspired by Louis Pasteur's work he sought out a chemical that would destroy microbes. A solution of phenol, also known as carbolic acid, was already used to deodorize sewage. He found it could prevent gangrene developing in wounds. Lister developed a procedure for disinfecting instruments and bodies by spraying phenol on them. Dependent upon killing bacteria rather than preventing them, this method is known as 'antiseptic' surgery.
Lister became widely hailed as the British Pasteur. In 1899 a new British Institute for Preventive Medicine was named the 'Lister Institute' in his honors. He served as President of the Royal Society from 1895 to 1900.
1864 - Lister applied for the professorship of systematic surgery in Edinburgh and is denied, Learns of Pasteur's work on the germ theory.