Abstract
The introduction of antisepsis by Joseph Lister in 1867, as is generally known, made possible the healing of wounds without suppuration. In a very short time operative surgery advanced to unprecedented levels. It did in fact reveal an entirely new era. In order to visualize clearly the special meaning of this discovery let us first try to form an impression of the seriousness and scale of the problem of wound infection in the 100 years preceding Lister’s breakthrough.
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Antisepsis, A Turning Point in Surgery
Pouteau: Oeuvres posthumes. Lyon, 1783, vol. 3. Quoted by Helfreich: ‘Gesch. Chir.’, p. 27.
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De Moulin, D. (1988). Antisepsis: A Turning Point in Surgery. In: A history of surgery. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3357-6_8
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