Joseph Lister was born in Upton, West Ham, Essex, England back in 1827 to Joseph and Isabella. He attended Brown Academy. After graduation he entered the University College London Medical School. He graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Medicine in 1852. In that same year he passed the examination for the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons.
In 1853, he was working as an assistant at the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. In 1855, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. In 1877, he moved from Edinburgh to King’s College Hospital, London. He was elected President of the Clinical Society of London. He was known as the first surgeon to use catgut ligatures, sutures and rubber drains. He died in 1912, he was 84.
What you may not know about Joseph is that he was the first surgeon to us carbolic aid to sterilize surgical instruments to clean wounds.
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