Antiseptics

. **__ ANTISEPTICS __**

 Antiseptics were discovered by Joseph lister. He was born on the 5 of april 1827and died in 1912. He invented them because Before the 19th century operations were terrrible, and most patients died from post-operative shock , infections or loss of blood. In some London hospitals the death rate after operations was over 80 per cent. He invented them in 1865. He cut the death rate in his ward from 46% to 15 % by spraying instruments and bandages with a 1-in-20 solution of carbolic acid. He then developed his idea further by devising a machine that pumped out a fine mist of carbolic acid into the air around an operation. The number of patients operated on by Lister who died fell dramatically. He did not invent a new drug but he made the discovery between the lack of hospital cleanliness and the death rate of paitants after they have had surgary. He had a medical degree from oxford university. in 1861 he was appointed a surgan of glasgow university. He grew up in upton in essex. he was the fourth son from Joseph Jackson Lister and Isabella Harris Lister. His father was a wealthy wine merchant and was a student in laten and mathematics. Joseph always wanted to be a surgon. LIfe after the discovery of antiseptics was a lot safer in hospitals and in oporations and he cut the death rate in hospitals down massively, now people had a chance to survive after the oporation and get better. by Max Lewis and Calum Syddall