They had to contact a race advanced enough to help with antiseptic surgery or find a way to build a fire, and it had to he soon.

Joseph Lister (1827-1912) began the modern movement to control infection with his work in antiseptic surgery.

Scientific medicine has had spectacular successes: anesthesia, antiseptic surgery, antibiotics.

I was the first man to take up this question armed with antiseptic surgery, and with a really scientific knowledge of the laws of growth.

The Operating Theatre had closed down before antiseptic surgery was invented.

The oldest surviving operating theatre in the country (dating from 1822), used in the days before anaesthetics and antiseptic surgery.

It is no exaggeration to regard his observations as the rock upon which antiseptic surgery, the glory of the nineteenth century, was built.

Dramatic medical breakthroughs have come before, sometimes from new uses of known chemicals, as in anesthesia and antiseptic surgery.

He was named after Dr. Joseph Lister, the father of antiseptic surgery.

Joseph Lister - A pioneer of antiseptic surgery, who greatly reduced the mortality rate for many operations.